Hi,
just curious to know android Graphical components (View) have their own specific renderer or they are using something like AWT, Swing or...?
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A:
They have their custom renderer. Android is not using AWT or Swing. The full Android source code is available, so you can dig into it if you feel like it: http://android.git.kernel.org/ (Information on how to download it locally is at http://source.android.com).
Basically, the entire graphics library is custom. Some concepts are similar to J2SE, but that's about it.
EboMike
2010-08-27 18:12:13
IMHO it's loosely based on Swing. Some methods/classes are very similar to Swing, and some things (like the layout system) have been completely revamped.
Stan Kurdziel
2010-08-27 18:18:16
True, the idea of layouts resembles Swing, and some layout managers are even similar (like Swing's GridLayout). You could even argue that GridBagLayout is related to RelativeLayout. But again, it's more a matter of using concepts from existing systems and making something new out of that - it'd be wrong to say that Android *uses* Swing (not saying that anyone did).
EboMike
2010-08-27 18:21:18