AntipodalWall is an standalone library designed to provide a so called "masonry" grid layout for Android (much like Pinterest app). This layout acommodates it's children views in a configurable number of columns letting them grow vertically as much as they need.

Check the page here

Well... the layout looks much like a masonry wall, but inverted. Like if it was in the antipodes.

The layout is still in an early stage of development. Specifically it needs work in memory handling for scrolling (view recycling), so right now it is not smooth with a lot of children and/or images.

There is ongoing work to add adapter support and view recycling in the change-to-adapter-view branch

Assuming you’re using the Eclipse Development Environment with the ADT plugin version 0.9.7 or greater you can include AntipodalWall as a library project. Create a new Android project in Eclipse using the library/ folder as the existing source. Then, in your project properties, add the created project under the ‘Libraries’ section of the ‘Android’ category.

Then, in your XML layout file, you can add the layout like this:

<com.antipodalwall.AntipodalWallLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
	xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
	android:id="@+id/antipodal_wall"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:scrollbars="vertical"
    android:columnCount="4"
    android:padding="2dp"
    android:verticalSpacing="2dp"
    android:horizontalSpacing="2dp">
    <!-- Your child views go here -->
</com.antipodalwall.AntipodalWallLayout>

You can also add view programatically from your activity like this:

AntipodalWallLayout layout = (AntipodalWallLayout)findViewById(R.id.antipodal_wall);
TextView tv = new TextView(this);
tv.setText("This TextView has been added from code");
layout.addView(tv);

There is a sample app project that already implements the layout in the sample_app/ folder.

• Daniel López Lacalle - [email protected]

Copyright 2012 Daniel López Lacalle

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