Position of a Dialog relative to a View in Android - android

I have an ImageView inside a ConstraintLayout in my Activity. I want to show a custom Dialog (with a custom layout) right on top of this ImageView whenever I click on it.
I have achieved this on my device by tweaking the LayoutParams "x" and "y", but, of course, it fails when I test it on a device with another density (as it also would on a different screen size, I guess). The position is wrong.
How can I make sure my dialog always shows up right above and centered on this ImageView? I'm having a hard time figuring out positions and sizes of views in Android.
priority.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
showCustomDialog();
}
});
private void showCustomDialog() {
dialog = new MyDialog(MainActivity.this);
Window window = dialog.getWindow();
WindowManager.LayoutParams param = window.getAttributes();
//any ideas?
dialog.show();
}

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TransitionManager.beginDelayedTransition blinks

I'm trying to provide a fullscreen button for my camera view which is in my app. Unfortunately, during the transition, the app is showing newly calculated params before the actual animation. I mean, the new dimensions of camera view are seen for a while (blinks), then the screen is becoming black and in the end, the animation of expanding is done. This is how I do it:
fullScreenBtn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
if(isFullScreen){
TransitionManager.beginDelayedTransition(transitionsContainer);
fragmentContener.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
hudView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
mCameraContent.setLayoutParams(params);
isFullScreen = false;
} else {
TransitionManager.beginDelayedTransition(transitionsContainer);
fragmentContener.setVisibility(View.GONE);
hudView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
mCameraContent.setLayoutParams(new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));
isFullScreen = true;
}
}
The fullScreenBtn is in the mCameraContent layout on the camera preview in the corner. transitionContainer is the whole activity layout. I think it is worth noting that my activity layout is divided into two equal views: baseContener and fragmentContener, the hudView is inside the baseContener below mCameraContent. They are fading out properly, the only problem is with camera preview. I was trying to add Slide() or ChangeBounds() into beginDelayedTransition method but that doesn't solve the problem. What should I do to avoid that view blinking?

Overlay dialog - align view

I want to implement a help overlay for my app.
It should look like this: How do I create a help overlay like you see in a few Android apps and ICS?
final Dialog dialog = new Dialog(this);
dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
dialog.getWindow().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(android.graphics.Color.TRANSPARENT));
dialog.setContentView(R.layout.coach_mark);
dialog.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(true);
//for dismissing anywhere you touch
View masterView = dialog.findViewById(R.id.coach_mark_master_view);
masterView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
dialog.dismiss();
}
});
dialog.show();
This works very well. The RelativeLayout of coach_mark.xml is displayed over my existing layout which was set via setContentView().
Now I want to align the views of coach_mark.xml near the according views of the existing layout, in order to react dynammically to the resolution and screen size. This is what I have tried:
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lp = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
lp.addRule(RelativeLayout.BELOW,R.id.view_of_main_layout);
view_of_the_overlay.setLayoutParams(lp);
But the view is displayed just in the middle of the screen.
The only thing I could archieve is to align the view to bottom of screen, but that is not what I want to do.
Thanks for your help.
You can use PopupWindow :
PopupWindow popup=new PopupWindow(this);
popup.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(android.graphics.Color.TRANSPARENT));
popup.setWindowLayoutMode(FrameLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,FrameLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
popup.setContentView(R.layout.coach_mark);
View view=findById(R.id.view_of_main_layout);
int[] viewLocation=new int[2];
view.getLocationInWindow(viewLocation)
popup.showAtLocation(view, Gravity.TOP|Gravity.LEFT, viewLocation[0],viewLocation[1]);
you can also adjust to popup location with the last two variables which are the X and Y offest. Their values can also be negative.

Can I partially hide a layout?

As I've a master in MS Paint, I will just upload a picture selfdescripting what I'm trying to achieve.
I've searched, but I'm not really sure what do I've to search. I've found something called Animations. I managed to rotate, fade, etc an element from a View (with this great tutorial http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidAnimation/article.html)
But this is a bit limited for what I'm trying to achieve, and now, I'm stuck, because I don't know how is this really called in android development. Tried words like "scrollup layouts" but I didn't get any better results.
Can you give me some tips?
Thank you.
You can see a live example, with this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=alexcrusher.just6weeks
Sincerely,
Sergi
Use something like this as your layout (Use Linear, Relative or other layout if you wish):
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/lty_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/lyt_first" />
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/lyt_second"/>
</LinearLayout>
And then in an onClick method on whatever you want to use to control it, set the Visibility between Visible and Gone.
public void buttonClickListener(){
((Button) findViewById(R.id.your_button))
.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
if (lyt_second.getVisibility() == View.GONE) {
lyt_second.setVisibility(View.VISIBILE);
}
else {
lyt_second.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
});
Which is fine if you just want a simple appear/disappear with nothing fancy. Things get a little bit more complicated if you want to animate it, as you need to play around with negative margins in order to make it appear to grow and shrink, like so:
We use the same onClick method that we did before, but this time when we click it starts up a custom SlideAnimation for the hidden/visible view.
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
SlideAnimation slideAnim = new SlideAnimation(lyt_second, time);
lyt_second.startAnimation(slideAnim);
}
The implementation of the SlideAnimation is based on a general Animation class, which we extend and then Override the transformation.
public SlideAnimation(View view, int duration) {
//Set the duration of the animation to the int we passed in
setDuration(duration);
//Set the view to be animated to the view we passed in
viewToBeAnimated = view;
//Get the Margin Parameters for the view so we can edit them
viewMarginParams = (MarginLayoutParams) view.getLayoutParams();
//If the view is VISIBLE, hide it after. If it's GONE, show it before we start.
hideAfter = (view.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE);
//First off, start the margin at the bottom margin we've already set.
//You need your layout to have a negative margin for this to work correctly.
marginStart = viewMarginParams.bottomMargin;
//Decide if we're expanding or collapsing
if (marginStart == 0){
marginEnd = 0 - view.getHeight();
}
else {
marginEnd = 0;
}
//Make sure the view is visible for our animation
view.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}
#Override
protected void applyTransformation(float interpolatedTime, Transformation t) {
super.applyTransformation(interpolatedTime, t);
if (interpolatedTime < 1.0f) {
// Setting the new bottom margin to the start of the margin
// plus the inbetween bits
viewMarginParams.bottomMargin = marginStart
+ (int) ((marginEnd - marginStart) * interpolatedTime);
// Request the layout as it happens so we can see it redrawing
viewToBeAnimated.requestLayout();
// Make sure we have finished before we mess about with the rest of it
} else if (!alreadyFinished) {
viewMarginParams.bottomMargin = marginEnd;
viewToBeAnimated.requestLayout();
if (hideAfter) {
viewToBeAnimated.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
alreadyFinished = true;
}
hideAfter = false;
}
}
EDIT: If anyone had used this code before and found that if you click on the button that starts the animation more than once before the animation was finished, it would mess up the animation from then on, causing it to always hide the view after the animation finished. I missed the reset of the hideAfter boolean near the bottom of the code, added it now.
you can do this manually by using setvisibility feature on the event onClick()
or
use this
dynamically adding two views one below other

EditText not shown in custom FragmentDialog

I'm trying to show a simple prompt dialog fragment programatically. I've extended SherlockFragmentActivity, and coded a custom SherlockDialogFragment implementation in it.
(I'm using ActionbarSherlock library, but I think the problem doesn't have to do with it, and would also be observed using regular ActionBar and Fragments).
This is the overriden oncreateDialog method inside the custom FragmentActivity class:
#Override
public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity());
//Skipped section. Setting positive, negative buttons, title, message on builder.
efPsw = new EditText(getActivity());
// Hacky margin stuff (yeah, I know it's dirty)
DisplayMetrics displaymetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getActivity().getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(displaymetrics);
int smallestSide = Math.min(displaymetrics.heightPixels, displaymetrics.widthPixels);
int margin = (int)(0.5 * ((double) smallestSide));
efPsw.setTransformationMethod(PasswordTransformationMethod.getInstance());
FrameLayout fl = new FrameLayout(getActivity());
FrameLayout.LayoutParams layoutParams = new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(
FrameLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, FrameLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
layoutParams.setMargins(margin, 0, margin, 0);
fl.addView(efPsw, layoutParams);
builder.setView(fl);
return builder.create();
}
When I show the fragment, the inner framelayout is not shown (looks like an invisible rectangle that grows in height with each typed character). I'm not sure what am I doing wrong here, but certainly something must be wrong, since if I put the edittext in setView everything works fine (but without margin).
Thanks in advance.
it looks like you are making the margin half the smallest side, which in portrait mode would make your margin the entire screen. i would start by reducing the margin.
you can apply the margins directly to the EditText using the setLayoutParams() method. That would eliminate the FrameLayout.

AlertDialog Displays Landscape-Sized View with Orientation in Landscape

My app's main activity is set in the manifest to always be in portrait view. This works fine when I load the app onto the tablet.
However, when I use my menu button and click "Setup", which opens an AlertDialog that inflates an xml layout, the tablet will display the left 2/3 or so of the entire dialog. The rest of it goes offscreen to the right. This case only occurs if I install my app on the tablet while holding it in landscape mode or if I turn the tablet to landscape mode while the app is not running (even if I go back to Portrait and click on the app). The dialog even calls this.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT); to make sure it stays in portrait (even though the problem persists with this call or not).
In other words, the way the AlertDialog is being displayed in portrait view is that it is blowing up a landscape view (and thus some of it goes offscreen), even though the actual orientation of the AlertDialog is portrait, like it should be.
(I apologize if the wording above was confusing - ask me to clarify anything if needed.)
So why would the tablet do this? I've tested it on a few android mobile phones and this doesn't happen, so I don't understand why the tablet will do this.
SIDE NOTES:
This isn't even occurring for just this AlertDialog either.. my EULA that displays at the start of the app (another AlertDialog) also appears this way if I start the app in landscape mode.
I've even allowed the usability of landscape by getting rid of all calls to specify portrait/landscape mode, and the tablet is still expending the dialog off-screen when held in portrait view on just the tablet, but not the phones.
EDIT:
This code works well on the phone, but the tablet problem still persists. If I uncomment dialog.show(); below, the tablet and phone display the dimensions I want, but on blackness instead of the dimmed main screen. Any ideas?
Calling function does this:
showDialog(EXAMPLE_CASE);
Function that gets called by the calling function:
protected Dialog onCreateDialog(final int id) {
Dialog dialog;
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
int mwidth = display.getWidth();
int mheight = display.getHeight();
WindowManager.LayoutParams lp = new WindowManager.LayoutParams();
switch(id) {
// Example of what all my cases look like (there were way too many to copy)
case EXAMPLE_CASE:
builder.setTitle("Example")
.setMessage("Example message")
.setPositiveButton("OK", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialoginterface,int i) {
dialoginterface.dismiss();
showDialog(DIALOG_CHOICE);
}
})
.setCancelable(false);
dialog = builder.create();
break;
}
if (dialog != null) {
lp.copyFrom(dialog.getWindow().getAttributes());
lp.width = mwidth;
lp.height = mheight;
lp.x = mwidth;
//lp.y = mheight;
lp.dimAmount=0.0f;
//dialog.show();
dialog.getWindow().setAttributes(lp);
dialog.getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DIM_BEHIND);
dialog.setOnDismissListener(new OnDismissListener() {
#Override
public void onDismiss(DialogInterface dialog) {
removeDialog(id);
}
});
}
return dialog;
}
You could try getting the screen dimensions like this:
Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
int mwidth = display.getWidth();
int mheight = display.getHeight();
And then alter the Dialog like this:
AlertDialog.Builder adb = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
Dialog d = adb.setView(new View(this)).create();
// (That new View is just there to have something inside the dialog that can grow big enough to cover the whole screen.)
d.show();
WindowManager.LayoutParams lp = new WindowManager.LayoutParams();
lp.copyFrom(d.getWindow().getAttributes());
lp.width = mwidth;
lp.height = myheight;
//change position of window on screen
lp.x = mwidth/2; //set these values to what work for you; probably like I have here at
lp.y = mheight/2; //half the screen width and height so it is in center
//set the dim level of the background
lp.dimAmount=0.1f; //change this value for more or less dimming
d.getWindow().setAttributes(lp);
//add a blur/dim flags
d.getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_BLUR_BEHIND | WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DIM_BEHIND);
Also, you say you are inflating a custom layout. Have you tried tinkering with the layout_height and layout_width of the views in that layout to see if that makes a difference?

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