So i am having this layout file (below). As you can see, there is no padding or margin. The dimen.xml files also dont have any padding/margin. Finally, i do NOT change the layout programmatically at all.
<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"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/root"
android:padding="0dp"
android:orientation="vertical">
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
android:id="#+id/toolbarholder"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:cardElevation="16dp"
app:cardCornerRadius="0dp">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>
<ListView
android:layout_below="#+id/toolbarholder"
android:layout_above="#+id/cardroot"
android:id="#+id/listView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
android:divider="#null"
android:dividerHeight="0dp"
android:layout_marginTop="0dp" />
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/cardroot"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:background="#color/transparentblack"
app:cardCornerRadius="0dp"
app:cardElevation="16dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/buttonholder"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:weightSum="3">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/previous"
android:layout_width="35dp"
android:layout_height="35dp"
android:src="#drawable/previous"
android:layout_weight="1"/>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/play"
android:layout_width="35dp"
android:layout_height="35dp"
android:src="#drawable/play"
android:layout_weight="1"/>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/next"
android:layout_width="35dp"
android:layout_height="35dp"
android:src="#drawable/next"
android:layout_weight="1"/>
</LinearLayout>
<SeekBar
android:id="#+id/seekbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/buttonholder" />
</RelativeLayout>
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>
</RelativeLayout>
Below are two screenshots from two different devices.
Lenovo k3 Note:
HTC Desire 550:
Any ideas what might be the cause of this?
Ok Guys... thanks for your input. Turns out the "Cardview Documentation" mentions that:
Before L, CardView adds padding to its content and draws shadows to that area. This padding amount is equal to maxCardElevation + (1 - cos45) * cornerRadius on the sides and maxCardElevation * 1.5 + (1 - cos45) * cornerRadius on top and bottom.
This means that the Margin is intended behavior to draw the shadows and simulate elevation. One possible solution for everyone having the same problem, is use the attribute cardUseCompatPadding in your layout as follows:
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:cardElevation="0dp"
app:cardUseCompatPadding="true">
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>
This will cause your layout to be "rendered" the same way (the pre-Lollipop way //sad ) in every device regardless of the API. At least this way we can fix a common layout that works for all versions given this restriction.
Hope it helps.
UPDATE: If you decide to go for "app:cardUseCompatPadding=true" here is another advice. Use negative layout_margin, to balance-out the unwanted padding from the compat library. Example below:
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="-10dp"
app:cardCornerRadius="0dp"
app:cardUseCompatPadding="true"
app:cardElevation="8dp">
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>
This way your layout can get rid of unwanted padding AND look the same pre-lollipop and after lollipop.
Hope this helps even more. :)
The possible reason is that well HTC mobiles especially have different types of internal layout files. So Lenovo Nexus and SAMSUNG may be functioning properly but thanks to HTC's difference in these situations it is a big problem for lot of developers. If you really want it to work on HTC as well I recommend the best way to make it work on HTC is to create your own xml files which resemble the android support ones. I recommend if you want to proceed you try to get a hang of the native xml file of the android card one and use the same. Now HTC has to use your custom ones which are equal to all other android ones but not in HTC. What I am saying is that now It will work properly on all devices. But be warned, this just might turn out to be long and painful if you can't get a hang of the native xml file. If you do it'll probably then become a breeze for you. I hope you understand me.
Have you tried setting the height for your linear layout or set it to match parent instead? It doesn't seem like there is extra padding but rather that your items in the list are not the same height as the image even gets Cut off.
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I'm testing a new activity in our Android app. On all but one devices, everything was fine - except for a Huawei P30 Pro.
The activity is quite simple: it shows an ImageView and a small menu-bar on the bottom. Before the image is set, a ProgressBar (spinning circle) gets shown.
On the Huawei P30 Pro, everything seems to work fine (the ProgressBar appears, the circle is spinning, the ProgressBar disappears), but no Image becomes visible. If you forward the image by pressing the Apply-button in the menuBar, the image gets correctly forwarded, so it actually is available, it just doesn't get shown within the activity.
We tested the same version of the app on several other devices (including Huawei P10, P20, several Samsung-phones and HTC) and everything was ok. But on both Huawei P30 Pro we had available, the same problem appeared.
The layout-code is pretty straightforward:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_weight="10">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="9"
android:orientation="vertical">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:srcCompat="#tools:sample/avatars"
android:contentDescription="Image preview"/>
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/indeterminateBar"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:minWidth="100dp"
android:minHeight="100dp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout
android:layout_height="0dp">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1">
<!-- bottom menu-bar-code is here as a TableLayout, which works fine on all devices -->
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Maybe the ImageView has a height of 0 so it isn't visible?
I'm puzzled about what it could be, since it's only that particular device...
I checked if the ImageView-drawable does properly get set (imageView.getDrawable() != null) and it looks like it does (it is not null), as well as the visibility-state, which also seems to be fine.
So at this point, I think it is a pure layout-problem.
I highly recommend to switch from LinearLayout to ConstraintLayout. Even though your current layout works on 14 of 15 devices, the height of the bottom menu is always 10% and this will not look good on devices with small heights (have you ever tried your layout in landscape? You will see what I mean).
Once switched to ConstraintLayout, your layout issue on the 15th device should also disappear.
I transformed your layout to use ConstraintLayout to show how it could look like. It also has less layouts inside.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:contentDescription="Image preview"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#id/bottomMenuBar"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
tools:srcCompat="#tools:sample/avatars" />
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/indeterminateBar"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:indeterminate="true"
android:minWidth="100dp"
android:minHeight="100dp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#+id/bottomMenuBar"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/bottomMenuBar"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="50dp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent">
<!-- bottom menu-bar-code is here as a TableLayout, which works fine on all devices -->
</LinearLayout>
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
Please be aware that for visibility reasons in the layout preview I have added a fixed height for the LinearLayout of the bottom menu. Once you have understood the ConstraintLayout you should also change it for the menu bar. I kept it as a LinearLayout for easier usage with your real layout code.
I'm having issues with my Activity and an ImageButton inside it. It looks like it is clipping:
This is the XML of the corresponding activity:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- A RecyclerView with some commonly used attributes -->
<LinearLayout xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:id="#+id/todo_linear_layout"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/imageButton"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
app:srcCompat="#android:drawable/ic_input_add" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/edittodo"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="20px"
android:layout_weight="5"
android:textColor="#android:color/black" />
</LinearLayout>
<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/todo_recycler_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:scrollbars="vertical" >
</android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView>
</LinearLayout>
Additionally the Layout Designer in Android Studio shows the Layout correctly:
Where is the problem here? I already tried to change margin or padding values but the Button is still clipping in the running app on my android device.
I believe that what's happening is that the device you're running your app on doesn't have the #android:drawable/ic_input_add drawable.
I tried running the code you posted, and everything worked for me. However, if I delete the app:srcCompat attribute from the <ImageButton> tag, then I get the same behavior you posted in your first screenshot.
In general, you can't rely on 100% of devices having #android: resources. Some manufacturers remove resources, and others replace the values with nonsense (I've seen #android:color/white come through as gray, for example).
I recommend creating your own drawable (maybe even just manually copying the one from Android and adding it to your project), and referencing that instead.
app:srcCompat="#drawable/your_own_add"
Changing the app:srcCompat to:
android:src="#android:drawable/ic_input_add" did it! So the issue was, that the device didn't find that icon and displayed just something gray.
So I'm learning app development for Android, and I'm a bit stuck. I'm trying to make a RecyclerView with CardViews, but there is just too much space between CardViews. This is what it looks like.
I'm going for more of the look that the Google app has with the feed.
This is more like what I'm shooting for.
Anyways, I've searched and searched on this website for a solution to my problem and nothing seems to be working for me. I'm hoping that someone can give me something that will actually work.
Here's the xml for my cardview:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingBottom="10dp">
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
android:id="#+id/cv"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="120dp"
app:cardCornerRadius="10dp"
app:cardElevation="5dp"
app:cardUseCompatPadding="true"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="16dp">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/note_title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="false"
android:layout_below="#+id/event_time"
android:textSize="24sp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/note_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/note_title" />
</RelativeLayout>
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>
The top and bottom spaces is caused by your padding
android:paddingBottom="10dp", remove this or reduce it
Decrease the PadingBotom of the root constraintLayout
you could put 3 or 4 dp instead of 10dp.
android:paddingBottom="10dp"
Also I do not know if the copy of your code was not good ... the constraintLayout must close at the end:
after this:
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>
you must have this:
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>
From the documentation for CardView:
Before Lollipop, CardView adds padding to its content and draws shadows to that area. ... If you want CardView to add inner padding on platforms Lollipop and after as well, you can call setUseCompatPadding(boolean) and pass true.
In your layout, you have this attribute on your CardView tag:
app:cardUseCompatPadding="true"
This does the same thing as the method in the quote above.
As a result, even if you had zero margin on all sides of your cards, users would still see space in between them because of the inner padding behavior. If you want really tight spacing, you'll have to remove this attribute (though of course you'll still get the larger spacing pre-Lollipop).
I have created a layout and define following Xml in layout file.
<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="match_parent"
tools:context="com.example.kirmani.myapplication.MainActivity"
android:orientation="vertical"
>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:background="#color/colorPrimary"
/>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="150dp"
android:background="#color/colorPrimaryDark"
/>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="405dp"
android:layout_height="260dp"
android:background="#color/colorAccent"
/>
</LinearLayout>
This is filling my whole screen perfectly in Nexus 4 screen. but when i preview all screens, its giving very weird look in some screens.
I am using DP, it should maintain same display according all screens, but it is not working like that. Kindly guide me..
Actually dp maintains same display according all screens. It's because every device are not supposed to be same width in dp. Some devices has 480dp, some of them 360dp etc.
If you want to your image fit your width, you must use
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="260dp"
android:background="#color/colorAccent"
/>
do not use fixed dp.
EDIT:
If you want to height fill up, use this:
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#color/colorAccent"
/>
Your 3rd imageview width should be match parent. Like this
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#color/colorAccent"
/>
instead of
<ImageView
android:layout_width="405dp"
android:layout_height="260dp"
android:background="#color/colorAccent"
/>
We are talking Android ABC here. You need to understand how this works instead of looking for concrete answers to concrete problems, as I already recommend you here.
Every device has an specific dimension in DPs. Nexus 4 is 384x640 but is the only one in your image with those dimensions. Please realize that is not that "is looking weird on some screens", in fact is gonna look weird on all screens that are not 384x640. For instance, the Nexus One in your image (which is 533dp x 320dp) is not working as expected, but is more difficult to realize because what is wrong is outside your view, but the views are bigger than the screen. Same with the Nexus S.
If you are trying to get a view from edge to edge (all the screen width), then use match_parent. Do not specify a size in DPs.
If you are trying to distribute views horizontally or vertically, please use an specific ViewGroup and/or weights, or you can use the Percent Support Library for doing things like this or this. Take a look at this tutorial for more.
Anyway, here you have your copy&paste code.
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:background="#color/colorPrimary" />
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1.5"
android:background="#color/colorPrimaryDark"/>
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="2.6"
android:background="#color/colorAccent"/>
</LinearLayout>
Disclosure up front, this is a school project.
I've run into a somewhat confusing-to-me layout issue regarding a list of CardViews inside of a RecyclerView, that being that the spacing between cards is non-existent on 5.0, whereas it's fine on 4.4. Here's two screenshots to demonstrate.
Android 4.4 (On Device, Galaxy S4)
Android 5.0.1 (On Device, Nexus 4)
I can see the card corners in the 5.x version, so the cards are there. I have a feeling this is something to do with some XML attribute that I need for running 5.x that the support library fakes automatically on 4.x, but googling has failed me. Here's the relevant XML:
Fragment Layout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout 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"
tools:context="com.hinodesoftworks.kanagt.HiraganaListFragment">
<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
android:id="#+id/hira_list"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
/>
</FrameLayout>
Card Layout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:card_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
card_view:cardCornerRadius="4dp">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/kana_card_display"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="46sp"
android:text="あ"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/kana_card_roma"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/kana_card_display"
android:layout_toEndOf="#id/kana_card_display"
android:text="a"
/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/kana_card_info1_display"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/kana_card_display"
android:layout_toEndOf="#id/kana_card_display"
android:layout_below="#id/kana_card_roma"
android:text="INFO 1"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/kana_card_info2_display"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/kana_card_display"
android:layout_toEndOf="#id/kana_card_display"
android:layout_below="#id/kana_card_info1_display"
android:text="INFO 2"/>
<HorizontalScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/kana_card_info2_display">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/kana_card_diagram"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:scaleType="fitStart"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"/>
</HorizontalScrollView>
</RelativeLayout>
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>
I'm really hoping this is a dumb mistake with a simple XML fix; that the support library version is working fine makes me hopeful of that.
If you want the padding on 5.0 follow the same rules as on previous platforms add this attribute to the CardView XML element
app:cardUseCompatPadding="true"
On Lollipop the shadows can be drawn outside of the view bounds. On Kitkat and lower extra space has to be reserved for the shadows. That's why on Lollipop the spacing would have to be set explicitly.