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In Tim Bray’s latest Android blog post he mentions the “dashboard” ui pattern (what is used for the Twitter app, Facebook app, etc. Is this layout as simple as a GridView with Buttons or is it something else?
Update:
The DashboardLayout was released by Roman Nurik last night. It is a derivative of the layout used in the Google IO 2010 app.
The best example you can use is from the Google I/O 2011 Android App. They implement all those design patterns in their app. You can find the code at the following link:
http://code.google.com/p/iosched/source/browse/android/res/layout/fragment_dashboard.xml?r=27a82ff10b436da5914a3961df245ff8f66b6252
The 2011 version uses a custom layout called ‘DashboardLayout’ in a fragment which gets shared in phone and tablet specific layouts. The logic in DashboardLayout is responsible for all the auto layout magic!