If you have been to the new App Development forums, you may have come across a project called 'Playview for CardsUI'. Started by XDA Recognized Developer GadgetCheck, it's an open source project that aims to replicate the aesthetic philosophy and design of the new Google Play store, and in particular, the card-like lists.
"How do you think we can achieve a list view like the new Play store…Can anyone help me out?" GadgetCheck, 10th April, 2013
Within days, GadgetCheck, XDA Senior Member Androguide.fr, and other XDA community members managed to achieve strides of progress in this proposal. Presented with a simple question and an initial prototype the XDA community, with a bit of coding and open-source libraries, further refined the product into what is known today as PlayView for CardsUI. Every aspect of PlayView's development is documented in the forum thread, with points of major progress uploaded to Github for the community to check out and contribute to. The libraries are open-sourced, allowing anyone to incorporate the UI into their works.
What's so great about this project is that it epitomizes what XDA-Developers is about: social contribution from the community towards development, helping one another out, and sharing and enjoying the end result. It's something we all can see in CyanogenMod, FreeXperia, AOKP, and the many other teams and developers who dedicate their time and effort to get Android development to where it is in the present day.
PlayView for CardsUI is still a work in progress, so if you would like to check it or or chip in, make sure to head over to the development thread for more details.
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