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authorRoman Nurik <romannurik@google.com>2011-12-01 13:42:23 -0800
committerAndroid Git Automerger <android-git-automerger@android.com>2011-12-01 13:42:23 -0800
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am c3998ced: Merge "Update widget design guidelines for padding and 8dp." into ics-mr0
* commit 'c3998ced746ee97bc5f10a9de1b2848f85c8711e': Update widget design guidelines for padding and 8dp.
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-rw-r--r--docs/html/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.jd12
-rw-r--r--docs/html/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.jd4
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/html/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.jd b/docs/html/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.jd
index de20e00..f63f3c4 100644
--- a/docs/html/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.jd
+++ b/docs/html/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/widget_design.jd
@@ -250,13 +250,15 @@ android.widget.FrameLayout}. Just as your activity layouts must adapt to differe
sizes, widget layouts must adapt to different Home screen grid cell sizes.</p>
<p>Below is an example layout that a music widget showing text information and two buttons can use.
-It builds upon the previous discussion of adding margins depending on OS version.</p>
+It builds upon the previous discussion of adding margins depending on OS version. Note that the
+most robust and resilient way to add margins to the widget is to wrap the widget frame and contents
+in a padded {@link android.widget.FrameLayout}.</p>
<pre>
&lt;FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
- android:layout_margin="@dimen/widget_margin"&gt;
+ android:padding="@dimen/widget_margin"&gt;
&lt;LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
@@ -295,16 +297,16 @@ use flexible layouts attributes like so:</p>
<p>When a user adds the widget to their home screen, on an example Android 4.0 device where each
-grid cell is 80dp &times; 100dp in size and 16dp of margins are automatically applied on all sizes,
+grid cell is 80dp &times; 100dp in size and 8dp of margins are automatically applied on all sizes,
the widget will be stretched, like so:</p>
<img src="{@docRoot}images/widget_design/music_example_stretched.png"
- alt="Music widget sitting on an example 80dp x 100dp grid with 16dp of automatic margins
+ alt="Music widget sitting on an example 80dp x 100dp grid with 8dp of automatic margins
added by the system" id="music_example_stretched">
<p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 7.</strong> Music widget sitting on an example 80dp x 100dp
-grid with 16dp of automatic margins added by the system.</p>
+grid with 8dp of automatic margins added by the system.</p>
<h2 id="templates">Using the App Widget Templates Pack</h2>
diff --git a/docs/html/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.jd b/docs/html/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.jd
index 61337b7..2cb23c1 100644
--- a/docs/html/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.jd
+++ b/docs/html/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.jd
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ following layout classes:</p>
&lt;FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
- <strong>android:layout_margin="@dimen/widget_margin"&gt;</strong>
+ <strong>android:padding="@dimen/widget_margin"&gt;</strong>
&lt;LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ following layout classes:</p>
<li>Create two dimensions resources, one in <code>res/values/</code> to provide the pre-Android 4.0 custom margins, and one in <code>res/values-v14/</code> to provide no extra padding for Android 4.0 widgets:
<p><strong>res/values/dimens.xml</strong>:<br>
- <pre>&lt;dimen name="widget_margin"&gt;15dp&lt;/dimen&gt;</pre></p>
+ <pre>&lt;dimen name="widget_margin"&gt;8dp&lt;/dimen&gt;</pre></p>
<p><strong>res/values-v14/dimens.xml</strong>:<br>
<pre>&lt;dimen name="widget_margin"&gt;0dp&lt;/dimen&gt;</pre></p>