How to create Google + cards UI in a list view?

Question

I want to create a listView of cards, but after reading this blog post goolge-plus-layout, I\'m cards are a viable solution for a list of anything. The animation part seems

Answer 1

EDIT: Google provides a nice class called CardView. I didn't check it but it looks promising.

Here's the previous way, which also works fine (that's what I wrote before the edit) :

There is a nice tutorial here and a nice sample of it here .

in short , these are the files you can create:

listView definition:

android:divider="@null"
android:dividerHeight="10dp"
android:listSelector="@android:color/transparent" 
android:cacheColorHint="@android:color/transparent"
android:headerDividersEnabled="true"
android:footerDividersEnabled="true"

also this:

m_list.addHeaderView(new View(this));
m_list.addFooterView(new View(this));

res/drawable/selector_card_background.xml

listView item :

res/layout/list_item_card.xml

res/drawable/layer_card_background_selected.xml

res/drawable/layer_card_background.xml