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parent.title=Hello, Views
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<p>{@link android.widget.Gallery} is a layout widget used to display items in a
horizontally scrolling list and positions the current selection at the center of the view.</p>

<p>In this tutorial, you'll create a gallery of photos and then display a toast message each time a
gallery item is selected.</p>


<ol>
  <li>Start a new project named <em>HelloGallery</em>.</li>
  <li>Find some photos you'd like to use, or use these <a
href="{@docRoot}shareables/sample_images.zip">sample images</a>. Save the images into the project's
<code>res/drawable/</code> directory.</li>
  <li>Open the <code>res/layout/main.xml</code> file and insert the following:
<pre>
&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
&lt;Gallery xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:id="@+id/gallery"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
</pre>
  </li>

<li>Open the <code>HelloGallery.java</code> file and insert the following code for the
{@link android.app.Activity#onCreate(Bundle) onCreate()} method:
<pre>
&#64;Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    Gallery g = (Gallery) findViewById(R.id.gallery);
    g.setAdapter(new ImageAdapter(this));

    g.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View v, int position, long id) {
            Toast.makeText(HelloGallery.this, "" + position, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    });
}
</pre>
  <p>This starts by setting the {@code main.xml} layout as the content view and then capturing the
{@link android.widget.Gallery} from
the layout with {@link
android.app.Activity#findViewById(int)}. A custom {@link android.widget.BaseAdapter} called
<code>ImageAdapter</code> is
instantiated and applied to the {@link android.widget.Gallery} with {@link
android.widget.AdapterView#setAdapter(T) setAdapter()}. (The <code>ImageAdapter</code> class is
defined next.)
Then an anonymous {@link android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener} is instantiated. The
{@link android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener#onItemClick(AdapterView,View,int,long)}
callback method receives the {@link android.widget.AdapterView} where the click occurred, the
specific {@link android.view.View} that received the click, the
position of the {@link android.view.View} clicked (zero-based), and the row ID of the item clicked
(if applicable). In this example, all that's needed is the position of the click to show a {@link
android.widget.Toast} message that says the position of the item, using 
{@link android.widget.Toast#makeText(Context,CharSequence,int)} and {@link
android.widget.Toast#show()} (in a real world scenario, this ID could be used to get the full sized
image for some other task).
</p>
</li>
  <li>Create a new XML file in the <code>res/values/</code> directory named <code>attrs.xml</code>.
Insert the following:
<pre>
&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
&lt;resources>
    &lt;declare-styleable name="HelloGallery">
        &lt;attr name="android:galleryItemBackground" />
    &lt;/declare-styleable>
&lt;/resources>
</pre>
  <p>This is a custom styleable resource that can be applied to a layout. In this case, it will be
applied to the individual items placed into the {@link android.widget.Gallery} widget. The
<code>&lt;attr></code> element defines a specific attribute for the styleable, and in this case, it
refers to an existing platform attribute, {@link android.R.attr#galleryItemBackground}, which
defines a border styling for gallery items. In the next step, you'll
see how this attribute is referenced and then later applied to each item in the gallery.</p>
  </li>

  <li>Go back to the <code>HelloGallery.java</code> file. After the {@link
  android.app.Activity#onCreate(Bundle)} method, define the custom <code>ImageAdapter</code> class:
<pre>
public class ImageAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
    int mGalleryItemBackground;
    private Context mContext;

    private Integer[] mImageIds = {
            R.drawable.sample_1,
            R.drawable.sample_2,
            R.drawable.sample_3,
            R.drawable.sample_4,
            R.drawable.sample_5,
            R.drawable.sample_6,
            R.drawable.sample_7
    };

    public ImageAdapter(Context c) {
        mContext = c;
        TypedArray a = obtainStyledAttributes(R.styleable.HelloGallery);
        mGalleryItemBackground = a.getResourceId(
                R.styleable.HelloGallery_android_galleryItemBackground, 0);
        a.recycle();
    }

    public int getCount() {
        return mImageIds.length;
    }

    public Object getItem(int position) {
        return position;
    }

    public long getItemId(int position) {
        return position;
    }

    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        ImageView i = new ImageView(mContext);

        i.setImageResource(mImageIds[position]);
        i.setLayoutParams(new Gallery.LayoutParams(150, 100));
        i.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_XY);
        i.setBackgroundResource(mGalleryItemBackground);

        return i;
    }
}
</pre>
<p>First, there are a few member variables, including an array of IDs that reference
the images saved in the drawable resources directory ({@code res/drawable/}).</p>
<p>Next is the class constructor, where the {@link android.content.Context} for an {@code
ImageAdapter} instance is defined and the styleable
resource defined in the last step is acquired and saved to a local field. At the end of the
constructor, {@link android.content.res.TypedArray#recycle()} is called on the {@link
android.content.res.TypedArray} so it can be re-used by the system.</p>
<p>The methods {@link android.widget.Adapter#getCount()}, {@link
android.widget.Adapter#getItem(int)}, and {@link android.widget.Adapter#getItemId(int)} are methods
that must be implemented for simple queries on the {@link android.widget.Adapter}.
The {@link android.widget.Adapter#getView(int,View,ViewGroup) method does the
work to apply an image to an {@link android.widget.ImageView} that will be embedded in the
{@link android.widget.Gallery}. In this method, the member {@link android.content.Context} is used
to create a new {@link android.widget.ImageView}. The {@link android.widget.ImageView} is prepared
by applying an image from the local array of drawable resources, setting the {@link
android.widget.Gallery.LayoutParams} height and width for the image, setting the scale to fit the
{@link android.widget.ImageView} dimensions, and then finally setting the background to use the
styleable attribute acquired in the constructor.</p>

<p>See {@link android.widget.ImageView.ScaleType} for other image scaling options.</p>
</li>

<li>Run the application.</li>
</ol>

<p>You should see something like this:</p>
<img src="images/hello-gallery.png" width="150px" />


<h3>References</h3>
<ul>
	<li>{@link android.widget.BaseAdapter}</li>
	<li>{@link android.widget.Gallery}</li>
	<li>{@link android.widget.ImageView}</li>
  <li>{@link android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener}</li>
</ul>


