Chapter 22. Drag-and-drop
This chapter covers
- The drag-and-drop classes
- Drag-and-drop operations
- The shadow builder
- Listening for drag-and-drop events
Starting with Android 3.0 (API 11), developers can add drag-and-drop capabilities to applications. Drag-and-drop support is one of the neat features added in Android 3.0, a natural addition to touch-based user interfaces and tablets. Android 3.0 provides a complete framework for drag-and-drop that consists of multiple classes, events, and operations. Related to drag-and-drop are copy-and-paste operations. Although copy and paste has been around since API 1, a much richer clipboard API has been introduced in API 11.
Drag-and-drop is a touch-based gesture. With drag-and-drop gestures, you ...
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