Android SlideShow Component

SlideShow is an Android View extension that stores a set of visual elements that can be "scrolled through" while displaying one element at a time. SlideShow is built for the Android 1.0 SDK.

UPDATE

THIS COMPONENT IS SUNSET. ALL PLANS TO MODIFY IT ARE INACTIVE.

This slideshow component is good for understanding some basic approaches to building custom Views that apply to Android 1.0 - 1.5. It also educates those who are interested in building Android apps with Maven. Much has changed since Android 1.5, and native Gallery widgets have existed in Android since this was released. Those are recommended instead.

Technical Overview

The component supports animated slides and exposes listener interfaces so your Activity and Views can customize user interface and interaction. Extended support for a control interface is planned after version 1 milestones are achieved.

This project provides abstractions for slides and the slide show. The slide show can be built in XML or code but the Slides themselves must be built in code. This is because SlideShow currently only provides a raw implementation based on Drawables. View-based abstraction for slides is planned so the entire component can be built in XML or code.

SlideShow comes with a pom.xml based on the masa (http://code.google.com/p/masa/) maven plugin. The immediate next step in this project is to provide automated test coverage for the component. It would not have been released without automated testing except there is adequate manual testing to support the 0.6 release.