自定义View(7)官方教程:自定义View(含onMeasure),自定义一个Layout(混合组件),重写一个现有组件
Custom Components
Android offers a sophisticated and powerful componentized model for building your UI, based on the fundamental layout classes: View
and ViewGroup
. To start with, the platform includes a variety of prebuilt View and ViewGroup subclasses — called widgets and layouts, respectively — that you can use to construct your UI.
A partial list of available widgets includes Button
, TextView
,EditText
, ListView
, CheckBox
, RadioButton
, Gallery
,Spinner
, and the more special-purpose AutoCompleteTextView
,ImageSwitcher
, and TextSwitcher
.
Among the layouts available are LinearLayout
, FrameLayout
, RelativeLayout
, and others. For more examples, see Common Layout Objects.
If none of the prebuilt widgets or layouts meets your needs, you can create your own View subclass. If you only need to make small adjustments to an existing widget or layout, you can simply subclass the widget or layout and override its methods.
Creating your own View subclasses gives you precise control over the appearance and function of a screen element. To give an idea of the control you get with custom views, here are some examples of what you could do with them:
- You could create a completely custom-rendered View type, for example a "volume control" knob rendered using 2D graphics, and which resembles an analog electronic control.
- You could combine a group of View components into a new single component, perhaps to make something like a ComboBox (a combination of popup list and free entry text field), a dual-pane selector control (a left and right pane with a list in each where you can re-assign which item is in which list), and so on.
- You could override the way that an EditText component is rendered on the screen (the Notepad Tutorial uses this to good effect, to create a lined-notepad page).
- You could capture other events like key presses and handle them in some custom way (such as for a game).
The sections below explain how to create custom Views and use them in your application. For detailed reference information, see the View
class.
2.The Basic Approach(自定义View的基本过程)
Here is a high level overview of what you need to know to get started in creating your own View components:
下面是自定义一个view 过程的基本概述
- Extend an existing
View
class or subclass with your own class.继承 View
- Override some of the methods from the superclass. The superclass methods to override start with '
on
', for example,onDraw()
,onMeasure()
, andonKeyDown()
. This is similar to theon...
events inActivity
orListActivity
that you override for lifecycle and other functionality hooks.重写重要函数,onDraw,onMeasure,onTouchEvent等
- Use your new extension class. Once completed, your new extension class can be used in place of the view upon which it was based.
使用刚自定义的view
Tip: Extension classes can be defined as inner classes inside the activities that use them. This is useful because it controls access to them but isn't necessary (perhaps you want to create a new public View for wider use in your application).
3.Fully Customized Components
Fully customized components can be used to create graphical components that appear however you wish. Perhaps a graphical VU meter that looks like an old analog gauge, or a sing-a-long text view where a bouncing ball moves along the words so you can sing along with a karaoke machine. Either way, you want something that the built-in components just won't do, no matter how you combine them.
完全自定义一个ui组件,可以让显示更生动,要比内嵌的好很多。
Fortunately, you can easily create components that look and behave in any way you like, limited perhaps only by your imagination, the size of the screen, and the available processing power (remember that ultimately your application might have to run on something with significantly less power than your desktop workstation).
自定义的ui组件很灵活,定义步骤如下:
To create a fully customized component:
- The most generic view you can extend is, unsurprisingly,
View
, so you will usually start by extending this to create your new super component.继承View
- You can supply a constructor which can take attributes and parameters from the XML, and you can also consume your own such attributes and parameters (perhaps the color and range of the VU meter, or the width and damping of the needle, etc.)
提供一个可以根据xml文件提取属性或参数的构造方法
- You will probably want to create your own event listeners, property accessors and modifiers, and possibly more sophisticated behavior in your component class as well.
可以定义一些与本view配合工作的监听器
- You will almost certainly want to override
onMeasure()
and are also likely to need to overrideonDraw()
if you want the component to show something. While both have default behavior, the defaultonDraw()
will do nothing, and the defaultonMeasure()
will always set a size of 100x100 — which is probably not what you want.通常需要重写重要的方法,如:onMeasure,onDraw,onMeasure默认设置大小为100*100,onDraw默认什么也不做。
- Other
on...
methods may also be overridden as required.重写你需要的其它onXXX系列方法
3.1 Extend onDraw()
and onMeasure()
(onDraw,onMeasure详解)
The onDraw()
method delivers you a Canvas
upon which you can implement anything you want: 2D graphics, other standard or custom components, styled text, or anything else you can think of.
注意 onDraw 只支持2d绘制,如果3D绘制,要继承surfaceView,在一个独立的线程中绘制(见示例GLSurfaceViewActivity)。
Note: This does not apply to 3D graphics. If you want to use 3D graphics, you must extend SurfaceView
instead of View, and draw from a separate thread. See the GLSurfaceViewActivity sample for details.
onMeasure()
is a little more involved. onMeasure()
is a critical piece of the rendering contract between your component and its container. onMeasure()
should be overridden to efficiently and accurately report the measurements of its contained parts. This is made slightly more complex by the requirements of limits from the parent (which are passed in to the onMeasure()
method) and by the requirement to call the setMeasuredDimension()
method with the measured width and height once they have been calculated. If you fail to call this method from an overridden onMeasure()
method, the result will be an exception at measurement time.
onMeasure需要有效地,准确地,向它的容器类报告它内部成员的尺寸。计算出宽,高后必需在onMeasure中调用setMeasuaredDimension方法来设置一下,否则抛异常。
At a high level, implementing onMeasure()
looks something like this:
- The overridden
onMeasure()
method is called with width and height measure specifications (widthMeasureSpec
andheightMeasureSpec
parameters, both are integer codes representing dimensions) which should be treated as requirements for the restrictions on the width and height measurements you should produce. A full reference to the kind of restrictions these specifications can require can be found in the reference documentation underView.onMeasure(int, int)
(this reference documentation does a pretty good job of explaining the whole measurement operation as well).当onMeasure被调用时,它的两个参数中包含尺寸信息,可以从其中提取出来。详细见: View.onMeasure(int, int)
- Your component's
onMeasure()
method should calculate a measurement width and height which will be required to render the component. It should try to stay within the specifications passed in, although it can choose to exceed them (in this case, the parent can choose what to do, including clipping, scrolling, throwing an exception, or asking theonMeasure()
to try again, perhaps with different measurement specifications).onMeasure内应该实现的功能:计算当前控件及其内控件的尺寸大小。
- Once the width and height are calculated, the
setMeasuredDimension(int width, int height)
method must be called with the calculated measurements. Failure to do this will result in an exception being thrown.计算好尺寸后,必需调用 setMeasuredDimension() 否则出异常
Here's a summary of some of the other standard methods that the framework calls on views:
下面是自定义View时可重载方法:
Category | Methods | Description |
---|---|---|
Creation | Constructors |
There is a form of the constructor that are called when the view is created from code and a form that is called when the view is inflated from a layout file. The second form should parse and apply any attributes defined in the layout file. |
|
Called after a view and all of its children has been inflated from XML. | |
Layout |
|
Called to determine the size requirements for this view and all of its children. |
|
Called when this view should assign a size and position to all of its children. | |
|
Called when the size of this view has changed. | |
Drawing |
|
Called when the view should render its content. |
Event processing |
|
Called when a new key event occurs. |
|
Called when a key up event occurs. | |
|
Called when a trackball motion event occurs. | |
|
Called when a touch screen motion event occurs. | |
Focus |
|
Called when the view gains or loses focus. |
|
Called when the window containing the view gains or loses focus. | |
Attaching |
|
Called when the view is attached to a window. |
|
Called when the view is detached from its window. | |
|
Called when the visibility of the window containing the view has changed. |
3.2 A Custom View Example(一个自定义View的示例)
The CustomView sample in the API Demos provides an example of a customized View. The custom View is defined in the LabelView class.
1 /* 2 * Copyright (C) 2007 The Android Open Source Project 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 * limitations under the License. 15 */ 16 17 package com.example.android.apis.view; 18 19 // Need the following import to get access to the app resources, since this 20 // class is in a sub-package. 21 import android.content.Context; 22 import android.content.res.TypedArray; 23 import android.graphics.Canvas; 24 import android.graphics.Paint; 25 import android.util.AttributeSet; 26 import android.view.View; 27 28 import com.example.android.apis.R; 29 30 31 /** 32 * Example of how to write a custom subclass of View. LabelView 33 * is used to draw simple text views. Note that it does not handle 34 * styled text or right-to-left writing systems. 35 * 36 */ 37 public class LabelView extends View { 38 private Paint mTextPaint; 39 private String mText; 40 private int mAscent; 41 42 /** 43 * Constructor. This version is only needed if you will be instantiating 44 * the object manually (not from a layout XML file). 45 * @param context 46 */ 47 public LabelView(Context context) { 48 super(context); 49 initLabelView(); 50 } 51 52 /** 53 * Construct object, initializing with any attributes we understand from a 54 * layout file. These attributes are defined in 55 * SDK/assets/res/any/classes.xml. 56 * 57 * @see android.view.View#View(android.content.Context, android.util.AttributeSet) 58 */ 59 public LabelView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { 60 super(context, attrs); 61 initLabelView(); 62 63 TypedArray a = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, 64 R.styleable.LabelView); 65 66 CharSequence s = a.getString(R.styleable.LabelView_text); 67 if (s != null) { 68 setText(s.toString()); 69 } 70 71 // Retrieve the color(s) to be used for this view and apply them. 72 // Note, if you only care about supporting a single color, that you 73 // can instead call a.getColor() and pass that to setTextColor(). 74 setTextColor(a.getColor(R.styleable.LabelView_textColor, 0xFF000000)); 75 76 int textSize = a.getDimensionPixelOffset(R.styleable.LabelView_textSize, 0); 77 if (textSize > 0) { 78 setTextSize(textSize); 79 } 80 81 a.recycle(); 82 } 83 84 private final void initLabelView() { 85 mTextPaint = new Paint(); 86 mTextPaint.setAntiAlias(true); 87 // Must manually scale the desired text size to match screen density 88 mTextPaint.setTextSize(16 * getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density); 89 mTextPaint.setColor(0xFF000000); 90 setPadding(3, 3, 3, 3); 91 } 92 93 /** 94 * Sets the text to display in this label 95 * @param text The text to display. This will be drawn as one line. 96 */ 97 public void setText(String text) { 98 mText = text; 99 requestLayout(); 100 invalidate(); 101 } 102 103 /** 104 * Sets the text size for this label 105 * @param size Font size 106 */ 107 public void setTextSize(int size) { 108 // This text size has been pre-scaled by the getDimensionPixelOffset method 109 mTextPaint.setTextSize(size); 110 requestLayout(); 111 invalidate(); 112 } 113 114 /** 115 * Sets the text color for this label. 116 * @param color ARGB value for the text 117 */ 118 public void setTextColor(int color) { 119 mTextPaint.setColor(color); 120 invalidate(); 121 } 122 123 /** 124 * @see android.view.View#measure(int, int) 125 */ 126 @Override 127 protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) { 128 setMeasuredDimension(measureWidth(widthMeasureSpec), 129 measureHeight(heightMeasureSpec)); 130 } 131 132 /** 133 * Determines the width of this view 134 * @param measureSpec A measureSpec packed into an int 135 * @return The width of the view, honoring constraints from measureSpec 136 */ 137 private int measureWidth(int measureSpec) { 138 int result = 0; 139 int specMode = MeasureSpec.getMode(measureSpec); 140 int specSize = MeasureSpec.getSize(measureSpec); 141 142 if (specMode == MeasureSpec.EXACTLY) { 143 // We were told how big to be 144 result = specSize; 145 } else { 146 // Measure the text 147 result = (int) mTextPaint.measureText(mText) + getPaddingLeft() 148 + getPaddingRight(); 149 if (specMode == MeasureSpec.AT_MOST) { 150 // Respect AT_MOST value if that was what is called for by measureSpec 151 result = Math.min(result, specSize); 152 } 153 } 154 155 return result; 156 } 157 158 /** 159 * Determines the height of this view 160 * @param measureSpec A measureSpec packed into an int 161 * @return The height of the view, honoring constraints from measureSpec 162 */ 163 private int measureHeight(int measureSpec) { 164 int result = 0; 165 int specMode = MeasureSpec.getMode(measureSpec); 166 int specSize = MeasureSpec.getSize(measureSpec); 167 168 mAscent = (int) mTextPaint.ascent(); 169 if (specMode == MeasureSpec.EXACTLY) { 170 // We were told how big to be 171 result = specSize; 172 } else { 173 // Measure the text (beware: ascent is a negative number) 174 result = (int) (-mAscent + mTextPaint.descent()) + getPaddingTop() 175 + getPaddingBottom(); 176 if (specMode == MeasureSpec.AT_MOST) { 177 // Respect AT_MOST value if that was what is called for by measureSpec 178 result = Math.min(result, specSize); 179 } 180 } 181 return result; 182 } 183 184 /** 185 * Render the text 186 * 187 * @see android.view.View#onDraw(android.graphics.Canvas) 188 */ 189 @Override 190 protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) { 191 super.onDraw(canvas); 192 canvas.drawText(mText, getPaddingLeft(), getPaddingTop() - mAscent, mTextPaint); 193 } 194 }
The LabelView sample demonstrates a number of different aspects of custom components:
- Extending the View class for a completely custom component.
- Parameterized constructor that takes the view inflation parameters (parameters defined in the XML). Some of these are passed through to the View superclass, but more importantly, there are some custom attributes defined and used for LabelView.
- Standard public methods of the type you would expect to see for a label component, for example
setText()
,setTextSize()
,setTextColor()
and so on. - An overridden
onMeasure
method to determine and set the rendering size of the component. (Note that in LabelView, the real work is done by a privatemeasureWidth()
method.) - An overridden
onDraw()
method to draw the label onto the provided canvas.
You can see some sample usages of the LabelView custom View in custom_view_1.xml from the samples. In particular, you can see a mix of both android:
namespace parameters and custom app:
namespace parameters. These app:
parameters are the custom ones that the LabelView recognizes and works with, and are defined in a styleable inner class inside of the samples R resources definition class.
1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 2 <!-- Copyright (C) 2007 The Android Open Source Project 3 4 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 8 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 10 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 limitations under the License. 15 --> 16 17 <!-- Demonstrates defining custom views in a layout file. --> 18 19 <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 20 xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.example.android.apis" 21 android:orientation="vertical" 22 android:layout_width="match_parent" 23 android:layout_height="wrap_content"> 24 25 <com.example.android.apis.view.LabelView 26 android:background="@drawable/red" 27 android:layout_width="match_parent" 28 android:layout_height="wrap_content" 29 app:text="Red"/> 30 31 <com.example.android.apis.view.LabelView 32 android:background="@drawable/blue" 33 android:layout_width="match_parent" 34 android:layout_height="wrap_content" 35 app:text="Blue" app:textSize="20dp"/> 36 37 <com.example.android.apis.view.LabelView 38 android:background="@drawable/green" 39 android:layout_width="match_parent" 40 android:layout_height="wrap_content" 41 app:text="Green" app:textColor="#ffffffff" /> 42 43 </LinearLayout>
4.Compound Controls(用已存在的系统组件自定义一个混合组件)
If you don't want to create a completely customized component, but instead are looking to put together a reusable component that consists of a group of existing controls, then creating a Compound Component (or Compound Control) might fit the bill. In a nutshell, this brings together a number of more atomic controls (or views) into a logical group of items that can be treated as a single thing. For example, a Combo Box can be thought of as a combination of a single line EditText field and an adjacent button with an attached PopupList. If you press the button and select something from the list, it populates the EditText field, but the user can also type something directly into the EditText if they prefer.
把系统中现成的组件混合在一起,可以定义一个混合组件,如可以把一个Button和一个EditBox组合在一起成一个,系统中已经用这种思路定义了一些组件,如:Spinner和 AutoCompleteTextView
In Android, there are actually two other Views readily available to do this: Spinner
and AutoCompleteTextView
, but regardless, the concept of a Combo Box makes an easy-to-understand example.
To create a compound component:
4.1 自定义混合组件的步骤
- The usual starting point is a Layout of some kind, so create a class that extends a Layout. Perhaps in the case of a Combo box we might use a LinearLayout with horizontal orientation. Remember that other layouts can be nested inside, so the compound component can be arbitrarily complex and structured. Note that just like with an Activity, you can use either the declarative (XML-based) approach to creating the contained components, or you can nest them programmatically from your code.
第1步是选择一个Layout,如LinearLayout,注意它可以根据一个layout.xml构造,也可全用代码构造。
- In the constructor for the new class, take whatever parameters the superclass expects, and pass them through to the superclass constructor first. Then you can set up the other views to use within your new component; this is where you would create the EditText field and the PopupList. Note that you also might introduce your own attributes and parameters into the XML that can be pulled out and used by your constructor.
构造混合组件中的每一个小组件。
- You can also create listeners for events that your contained views might generate, for example, a listener method for the List Item Click Listener to update the contents of the EditText if a list selection is made.
可以根据业务定义自己的监听器
- You might also create your own properties with accessors and modifiers, for example, allow the EditText value to be set initially in the component and query for its contents when needed.
定义业务成员
- In the case of extending a Layout, you don't need to override the
onDraw()
andonMeasure()
methods since the layout will have default behavior that will likely work just fine. However, you can still override them if you need to.注意,通常自定义Layout时,无需重写onMeasure,onDraw,它们默认已经可以很好的工作。除非你需要。
- You might override other
on...
methods, likeonKeyDown()
, to perhaps choose certain default values from the popup list of a combo box when a certain key is pressed.重写其它需要的onXXX方法
To summarize, the use of a Layout as the basis for a Custom Control has a number of advantages, including:
自定义Layout的优点
- You can specify the layout using the declarative XML files just like with an activity screen, or you can create views programmatically and nest them into the layout from your code.
可以从一个layout.xml构造。
- The
onDraw()
andonMeasure()
methods (plus most of the otheron...
methods) will likely have suitable behavior so you don't have to override them.不用重写onDraw,onMeasure
- In the end, you can very quickly construct arbitrarily complex compound views and re-use them as if they were a single component.
可以把它当作一个简单的组件来看。
4.2 Examples of Compound Controls(自定义Layout的示例及它们的位置)
In the API Demos project that comes with the SDK, there are two List examples — Example 4 and Example 6 under Views/Lists demonstrate a SpeechView which extends LinearLayout to make a component for displaying Speech quotes. The corresponding classes in the sample code are List4.java
and List6.java
.
1 /** 2 * We will use a SpeechView to display each speech. It's just a LinearLayout 3 * with two text fields. 4 * 5 */ 6 private class SpeechView extends LinearLayout { 7 public SpeechView(Context context, String title, String dialogue, boolean expanded) { 8 super(context); 9 10 this.setOrientation(VERTICAL); 11 12 // Here we build the child views in code. They could also have 13 // been specified in an XML file. 14 15 mTitle = new TextView(context); 16 mTitle.setText(title); 17 addView(mTitle, new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)); 18 19 mDialogue = new TextView(context); 20 mDialogue.setText(dialogue); 21 addView(mDialogue, new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)); 22 23 mDialogue.setVisibility(expanded ? VISIBLE : GONE); 24 } 25 26 /** 27 * Convenience method to set the title of a SpeechView 28 */ 29 public void setTitle(String title) { 30 mTitle.setText(title); 31 } 32 33 /** 34 * Convenience method to set the dialogue of a SpeechView 35 */ 36 public void setDialogue(String words) { 37 mDialogue.setText(words); 38 } 39 40 /** 41 * Convenience method to expand or hide the dialogue 42 */ 43 public void setExpanded(boolean expanded) { 44 mDialogue.setVisibility(expanded ? VISIBLE : GONE); 45 } 46 47 private TextView mTitle; 48 private TextView mDialogue; 49 }
5.Modifying an Existing View Type(重写一个现有组件)
There is an even easier option for creating a custom View which is useful in certain circumstances. If there is a component that is already very similar to what you want, you can simply extend that component and just override the behavior that you want to change. You can do all of the things you would do with a fully customized component, but by starting with a more specialized class in the View hierarchy, you can also get a lot of behavior for free that probably does exactly what you want.
重写一个现有组件,可以直接继承那些不变的工作,只改变那些特别的行为,这样可以减少大量工作和错误。NotePad就是一个例子。
For example, the SDK includes a NotePad application in the samples. This demonstrates many aspects of using the Android platform, among them is extending an EditText View to make a lined notepad. This is not a perfect example, and the APIs for doing this might change from this early preview, but it does demonstrate the principles.
If you haven't done so already, import the NotePad sample into Android Studio (or just look at the source using the link provided). In particular look at the definition of MyEditText
in the NoteEditor.java file.
Some points to note here(一些关键点如下:)
- The Definition
The class is defined with the following line:
public static class MyEditText extends EditText
- It is defined as an inner class within the
NoteEditor
activity, but it is public so that it could be accessed asNoteEditor.MyEditText
from outside of theNoteEditor
class if desired. - It is
static
, meaning it does not generate the so-called "synthetic methods" that allow it to access data from the parent class, which in turn means that it really behaves as a separate class rather than something strongly related toNoteEditor
. This is a cleaner way to create inner classes if they do not need access to state from the outer class, keeps the generated class small, and allows it to be used easily from other classes. - It extends
EditText
, which is the View we have chosen to customize in this case. When we are finished, the new class will be able to substitute for a normalEditText
view.
- It is defined as an inner class within the
- Class Initialization
As always, the super is called first. Furthermore, this is not a default constructor, but a parameterized one. The EditText is created with these parameters when it is inflated from an XML layout file, thus, our constructor needs to both take them and pass them to the superclass constructor as well.
- Overridden Methods
In this example, there is only one method to be overridden:
onDraw()
— but there could easily be others needed when you create your own custom components.For the NotePad sample, overriding the
onDraw()
method allows us to paint the blue lines on theEditText
view canvas (the canvas is passed into the overriddenonDraw()
method). The super.onDraw() method is called before the method ends. The superclass method should be invoked, but in this case, we do it at the end after we have painted the lines we want to include. - Use the Custom Component
We now have our custom component, but how can we use it? In the NotePad example, the custom component is used directly from the declarative layout, so take a look at
note_editor.xml
in theres/layout
folder.1 <view 2 class="com.android.notepad.NoteEditor$MyEditText" 3 id="@+id/note" 4 android:layout_width="fill_parent" 5 android:layout_height="fill_parent" 6 android:background="@android:drawable/empty" 7 android:padding="10dip" 8 android:scrollbars="vertical" 9 android:fadingEdge="vertical" />
- The custom component is created as a generic view in the XML, and the class is specified using the full package. Note also that the inner class we defined is referenced using the
NoteEditor$MyEditText
notation which is a standard way to refer to inner classes in the Java programming language.If your custom View component is not defined as an inner class, then you can, alternatively, declare the View component with the XML element name, and exclude the
class
attribute. For example:<com.android.notepad.MyEditText id="@+id/note" ... />
Notice that the
MyEditText
class is now a separate class file. When the class is nested in theNoteEditor
class, this technique will not work. - The other attributes and parameters in the definition are the ones passed into the custom component constructor, and then passed through to the EditText constructor, so they are the same parameters that you would use for an EditText view. Note that it is possible to add your own parameters as well, and we will touch on this again below.
- The custom component is created as a generic view in the XML, and the class is specified using the full package. Note also that the inner class we defined is referenced using the
And that's all there is to it. Admittedly this is a simple case, but that's the point — creating custom components is only as complicated as you need it to be.
A more sophisticated component may override even more on...
methods and introduce some of its own helper methods, substantially customizing its properties and behavior. The only limit is your imagination and what you need the component to do.