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"You'll notice that Twitter is no longer using the standard Android ListActivity. There is a slight border around this list right now, which is VERY new to Android apps."

A ListView with some layout_margin ? Am I missing something special ?

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Yeah i can think of a number of ways to do this with padding or layout margins and then setting a shape drawable or 9 patch for as the backround of the list or its container. In fact i just checked and i have done this for a couple published apps. The pull to refresh feature is interesting. I would be tempted to mess with the sliding door class for a solution.

I don't see it either. There is nothing in that layout that I don't know how to implement, so unless I'm missing something more subtle, I don't think it's anything new.

I always felt the ListView needed to expand the screen. I could be wrong though, this might just be a layout_marginLeft or layout_paddingLeft attribute. Either way, it is a very new pattern for Android apps. You'll also notice the rounded corners, which I don't think come naturally with a ListView margin.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1683185/android-listview-...

I've made this app : https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cardiweb.carrefour... See the third screenshot : https://lh6.ggpht.com/FOyDJtPGapRpBk0zSpFcXVUu45zHEY5OTaHfto...

The list at the bottom is just a RelativeLayout, with some rounded corners. Wrap this in a ScrollView, and voila.

See http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable...

I've seen it a few times (though I can't recall any examples immediately) in the market, and implemented it once or twice.

Usually it's in apps that are ported from iOS with minimal consideration for Android user interface expectations, because it's a much more standard design pattern there.

I'm sure that's how you'd go about doing it using ListView. But isn't the new Twitter app just a wrapper around their mobile browser UI?

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