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Now Your Friends Seem Animated

menu...though we will need to do a little work to toggle the menu item

from "show" to "hide" mode and back again.

First, modify Patchy/res/layout/main.xml to replace our TableLayout with

some LinearLayout containers:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:orientation="vertical"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

>

<LinearLayout android:id="@+id/status_row"

android:orientation="vertical"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

>

<TextView android:text="Status:"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

/>

<EditText android:id="@+id/status"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:singleLine="false"

android:gravity="top"

android:lines="5"

android:scrollHorizontally="false"

android:maxLines="5"

android:maxWidth="200sp"

/>

<Button android:id="@+id/send"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:text="Send"

/>

</LinearLayout>

<ListView android:id="@+id/timeline"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="fill_parent"

/>

</LinearLayout>

Partially, we did this because we really were not using much of the

TableLayout functionality anymore. More importantly, though, we need to

isolate our collection of widgets we want to animate into a single container

• in this case, the innermost nested LinearLayout.

Next, add a statusRow View data member to Patchy:

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