which would be the best to do make a horizontal scrolling app in android?

Question

I have to make an application in which the user moves around a screen, which is like our android home screen.

There is a list of images that come, and we can scroll through the images in a horizontal scroll er.

The user cannot change the location of images, it's just like a few thumbnails arranged over a horizontal screen

This is like the paging control in iPhone app development.

I have tried to find ways to do this, but I am fairly new to android and I wanted to know the best way to achieve the above?

I have heard of the gallery control, but I am not sure if it will suit my purposes.

Also if you can give links to the answers you suggest.. it would be great as if there is a new controller involved , I will be able to understand it better as I am still a fresher. Thank you in advance.

Edit: For those who are unfamiliar with the iPhone paging view,here is a video example.

Answer 1

In my search to implement this, I found many implementation like below

1. http://www.codeshogun.com/blog/2009/04/16/how-to-implement-swipe-action-in-android/
2. https://github.com/ysamlan/horizontalpager
3. http://code.google.com/p/deezapps-widgets/

Answer 2

Well, you could look at the source code for the android homescreen, since it's open source. Maybe you can get some ideas from there.

Answer 3

The GreenDroid library (a collection of useful Android components) recently added a PagedView class that does exactly what you're looking for. It also includes a PageIndicator that works like the iOS dots.

It uses a Adapter system, similar to ListView (with efficient View re-use, etc), which I haven't seen in any of the other implementations of this pattern.

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Source code: https://github.com/cyrilmottier/GreenDroid

Demo application: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cyrilmottier.android.gdcatalog