Gallery within a gallery?

Question

I hope I'm not too vague with this question. For some reason I've developed an inordinate fear of being ambiguous with my SO questions :-)

I need to make a design decision and, having just recently started in my Android efforts, I thought I might ask about its potential dangers among those who've been in the trenches for awhile.

I'd like to build a gallery within a gallery. The outer widget views will scroll horizontally, while the inner views--being galleries themselves--will scroll vertically.

Has this been tried/crashed/burned in the past? If so I'll rethink my UI, but I wanted to ask in advance before I spend a lot of time chasing the wrong dog.

Thanks, Jeff

Answer 1

The gallery widget cannot scroll vertically. There's no way to change orientation, it can only be horizontal. You can build it custom, something like attaching image views to list views and such, or you can use something like a wheel scroller, like this one, called android wheel, and do some tweaking to make it look and work the way you want. These two SO posts might help as well, for the vertical aspect.

Lazy load of images in ListView

Vertical gallery in android