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Android - ImageView overlay another ImageView

I would like to make an ImageView overlay another ImageView like this; only half of the circle green is overlaying the image:
I have tried using RelativeLayout and put both ImageView inside. Then I overlay the circle over the image by using android:layout_alignBottom. It did overlay the but I have no idea how to set the offset so that only half of the circle is overlaying the base image.
EDIT:
Sorry, here is my layout xml code
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginBottom="32sp" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_person_black"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:id="#+id/image_view_product" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/image_view_product"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:background="#drawable/image_view_circle"
android:src="#drawable/ic_circle" />
</RelativeLayout>

I get lots of upvote for this answer.So i try to improve that answer. May be this is the better way to do that compare to other two, because this solution doesn't required to fix the layout or divide screen in equal part so may be this is better to do that.
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/viewA"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/colorPrimary"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/subject"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="20dp"
android:text="Thi"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="17sp"
/>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/viewB"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#android:color/white"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/description"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="20dp"
android:text="Thi"
android:textColor="#android:color/black"
android:textSize="17sp"
/>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
android:id="#+id/fab"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="16dp"
android:clickable="true"
android:src="#drawable/plus"
app:layout_anchor="#+id/viewA"
app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|right|end"/>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
Alternate way Try this
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
// this is your first layout to put the big image
// use src or backgroud image as per requirement
<LinearLayout
android:background="#color/red_error"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1">
</LinearLayout>
// this is your bottom layout
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1">
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
// This is the imageview which overlay the first LinearLayout
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/success"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:layout_gravity="center"/>
</FrameLayout>
its look like this
found one more solution for that (Edit)
if your big image size is fixed height you can try this
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/layoutTop"
android:background="#color/red_error"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp" >
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/layoutBottom"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_below="#id/layoutTop" >
</RelativeLayout>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/overlapImage"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_above="#id/layoutBottom"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="-20dp"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:src="#drawable/testimage" />
</RelativeLayout>
Refernce :- Android: Placing ImageView on overlap between layouts
Hope this will help.Good Luck

Try out this way:
Just change layout_width and layout_height according to your need.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<View
android:id="#+id/viewOne"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:background="#126989" />
<View
android:id="#+id/viewTwo"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="70dp"
android:layout_below="#+id/viewOne"
android:background="#547866" />
<View
android:layout_width="70dp"
android:layout_height="70dp"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/viewTwo"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:background="#ff7800"
android:layout_marginBottom="35dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
It will look like this:

I would recommend Constraintlayout as it gives excellent control over the positioning of individual view items. Sample based on your example below
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:id="#+id/parentLayout">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_person_black"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:id="#+id/image_view_product"/>
<View
android:layout_width="50dp"
android:layout_height="50dp"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/image_view_product"/>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="100dp"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/image_view_product"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:background="#drawable/circle"
android:src="#drawable/ic_add_circle_green_24dp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"/>
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

Use layout_marginTop = -20dp ( Half of your image size ). It will go up.
android:layout_marginTop="-20dp"

put both the image in Relative layout
first define the image you want to put behind the green circle
than define the green circle as
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/Image1"
Than adjust the position by giving margin to the green circle image.

I recommend you to use a framelayout with these two images.
with the refresh imageview at the bottom and the table fan at the top.
Note : As the framelayout behaves like a stack, the item at the bottom will appear at the top.
And do the set the gravity of the refresh icon to be bottom|center to make it look this way.
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ImageView
android:src="#drawable/ic_fan"
android:scaleType="centerCrop"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"/>
<ImageView
android:src="#drawable/ic_refresh"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center|bottom"/>
</FrameLayout>

<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginBottom="32sp" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/ivBackground"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_person_black"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:id="#+id/image_view_product" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_marginTop="-20dp"
android:layout_below="#+id/ivBackground"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:background="#drawable/image_view_circle"
android:src="#drawable/ic_circle" />
I think this should help you i have edited your code and made changes as below
- I change circle imageview height to 40dp and then i give margin top -20 dp so that image will overlay half as you need on background image.
I did not run this code so if you face any issues just let me know i hope this works well for you..

Screenshot:
activity_main.xml:
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/rl_image"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200dp">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/thumbnail"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="160dp"
android:background="?attr/selectableItemBackgroundBorderless"
android:clickable="true"
android:contentDescription="null"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:src="#drawable/album9" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView_round"
android:layout_width="70dp"
android:layout_height="70dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:src="#drawable/user_profile" />
</RelativeLayout>

Make ImageView take up all available vertical space and grow width to scale up/down proportionally in RelativeLayout

I'm targeting API level 21 and min is also 21 (I support Lollipop only for now, it's a pet project to learn).
I'm having problems with a custom ListView item layout. Here is my XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/test_list_item_icon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginEnd="10dp"
android:background="#FF0000"
android:src="#drawable/ic_test"
tools:ignore="ContentDescription"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/test_list_item_name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toEndOf="#id/test_list_item_icon"
android:textSize="50sp"/>
</RelativeLayout>
And here is what it looks like (the icon's red background color is only to see how big the actual view is):
I would like the image view to behave like the following: take up the available vertical space at the 'start'/left of the layout, have the image scale proportionally, and have the width be grown so that the image can be fully shown, like this (pardon my gimp skills):
Is it possible?

Try this for your ImageView
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/test_list_item_icon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginEnd="10dp"
android:background="#FF0000"
android:src="#drawable/ic_test"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
tools:ignore="ContentDescription"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/test_list_item_name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toEndOf="#id/test_list_item_icon"
android:textSize="50sp"/>
</RelativeLayout>

In the end I decided to create one more icon size, xxxhdpi, and it all looks nice now.
Many thanks to #corsair992 for information about the bug in one of the comments.

HI wujek the reason for your problem is you set height as wrap content for your relative layout . so it will take the textview's height as its height .then image view will use this as its height .so change relative layout height to match parent. Please try and let me know thanks
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/test_list_item_icon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginEnd="10dp"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:background="#ff0000"
android:src="#drawable/ic_launcher"
tools:ignore="ContentDescription" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/test_list_item_name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/layout_1"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="bhsbd"
android:textSize="50sp" />

try this
if u want to image should capture imageview size use background insted src.
if red background is mandatory use another relative layout as parent for imageview.
hope it works fo u..
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/layout_1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:background="#FF0000" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/test_list_item_icon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginEnd="10dp"
android:background="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
tools:ignore="ContentDescription" />
</RelativeLayout>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/test_list_item_name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/layout_1"
android:textSize="50sp" />
</RelativeLayout>
edit 2
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/layout_1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/test_list_item_name"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/test_list_item_name"
android:background="#FF0000" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/test_list_item_icon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:src="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
tools:ignore="ContentDescription" />
</RelativeLayout>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/test_list_item_name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginStart="10dp"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/layout_1"
android:textSize="50sp"
android:text=" text 5>" />
</RelativeLayout>

Define a LineatLayout with weightsum.
<LinearLauyout
----
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:weightSum="5">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1">
<TextView
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="4">
</LinearLayout>
you can adjust the weightsum as per your requirement.

Problems with RelativeLayout Android

I am new to Java and Android and I am facing this problem:
I would like to add a photo to the top/left corner of a Rectangle. However, the ImageView of my photo gets always more space and so, it creates a blank space on top that I would not like to have. Here is a screenshot:
The code of my Layout is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:padding="25dp">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:src="#drawable/profile_frame" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView2"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:src="#drawable/foto_facebook_juan_mejorada" />
</RelativeLayout>

Try this:
android:scaleType="fitStart"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"

It may be because of
size of the image. If the image not fit in the space given it will add blank space.

// try this way
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center">
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_margin="30dp">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:src="#drawable/profile_frame" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView2"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:src="#drawable/foto_facebook_juan_mejorada" />
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Android Scroll view Image and text

I am solving a problem with image and text in one scroll view. The main problem is, that I get different image height from server side . But the place with image should be all the time same.
Now the height of image place is dynamic. The text should be scrollable with the image.
Is there any possibility how to make the image height static?
Thank you!
EDIT
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/article_gallery"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dip"
android:layout_weight="4" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/article_image_back"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:src="#drawable/sipka_l" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/article_image"
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_weight="1" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/article_image_next"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:src="#drawable/sipka_p" />
</LinearLayout>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/image_desc"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:background="#color/tran_dark_gray"
android:gravity="center"
android:padding="#dimen/size_8"
android:textAppearance="#style/xsmallLight" />
</RelativeLayout>
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dip"
android:layout_weight="6"
android:background="#color/opaq_light"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="#dimen/size_16" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/article_title"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/size_12"
android:textAppearance="#style/normalBold" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/article_body"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="#style/xsmall" />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>
</FrameLayout>

If you declare the ImageView with a fixed width and height it will remain static all the time.
Try something like:
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="50dp"
android:layout_height="50dp"
/>
Put this ImageView inside a ScrollView and ofcourse put your TextView inside the same ScrollView.

you can use layout weights for your linearlayout. Set the width to 0 and let the weight determine actual size. Setting weight to 0.33 each gives each images 1/3 of the screen.
Or you could set one to 0.5 and the others to 0.25 each or whatever makes sense for your app.
Set the 3 images as:
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/article_image_back"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0.33"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:src="#drawable/sipka_l" />

Android how to overlap an ImageView on top of a LienearLayouy so that they have the same size?

Hi and thanks for any suggestion.
I need to put an ImageView to overlapp over a LinearLayout.
I have tried this:
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/background"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/backgroundimage"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:src="#drawable/gradient_box"
android:layout_gravity="center"
/>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_gravity="center">
But this is the result I get (the ImageView shrinks to a single line)
I have tried using RelativeLayout, this is the result I get.
CLOSE, but the ImageView now expands to fill all the available space and does not "wrap content" as I need to.
The desired result would be like this:
PS: I cannot use android:background="image" because i need to change it at runtime.

You can use a Relativ Layout that contains the LinearLayout and then align the ImageView with the LinearLayout
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/background"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/linear"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_gravity="center">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/backgroundimage"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/gradient_box"
android:layout_alignLeft="#id/linear"
android:layout_alignRight="#id/linear"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/linear"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/linear"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:scaleType="fitCenter" />
If you just want to set the image as a background you can just set a background image for the linear layout:
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/background"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/blue" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:background="#drawable/gradient_box"
android:layout_gravity="center">

PS: I cannot use android:background="image" because i need to change it at runtime.
Why not? Use setBackgroundResource.