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Question

I want to make a menu sort of similar to Yelps front page.

The left image in particular. I feel like I've seen this on multiple apps, and I also remember thinking that this was actually something built into the default android layouts, but I can't seem to find anything on it anywhere.

How would I go about making this layout? Is there something already built for you, or do I have to make using image buttons and a relative layout?

Answer 1

Google+ also uses something like this on their first page; a lot of apps do now. It's called a dashboard layout. You can see an overview of that here and an explanation of how to create it here.

Answer 2

Using button images and a relative layout is an easy way to do this. For help on that look at this tut: http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-relativelayout.html