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Display view like a spinner's list without relativeLayout

For some reasons, I have to create a kind of custom spinner. I meam, I want to display a Button/an ImageButton and onClick on it, I want to display a list. But this list must be floating like with a spinner.
The problem is I haven't and I can't add a RelativeLayout as a parent.
So how can I add a view floating on the top and looking like a spinner's list ?
I need you ! :D

You can use PopupWindow and use showAsDropDown method to show it at any location you want, in your case make use your Button/ImageButton as anchor view.
you can follow this

right approach of custom view implementing

I need to implement such a element - TextView of predefined size with white border line at the bottom. Inside of the TextView a button with predefined style and size should be. TextView shouldn'y be clickable and button should be. I see some possible solutions:
1) implement TableLayout and put all my buttons into the table's row. But there's not nice solution - my layout becomes too long. So I think about another solution.
2) make my element as a custom view. But the problem is that I need to use a lot of these elements through my app and I need use onClickListener to each of them. I know how to implement onClick() method for all items but how I can use singular onClick() method for each of the item? And how should I build this custom view - should it be extending from RelativeLayout, where TextView and Button with defined properties should be put?
I also thought about using for the button, but in this case my TextView will be also clickable.
Tell me please what approach is less complicated and more convenient.

I used another way if solving this issue. I put buttons and other control elements into the TableLayout with predefined TableRow style. In this case I do not need implement TextView and borders margins which I need I build with corresponding TableRow style.

How to show and hide layout dynamically

I want to make layout that expands dynamically, like some kind of menu.
It should look like this
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/845/dialog.jpg/
Step 1:
When I click on TextView it should inflate the new layout, remove transparent one, and move text to the left side.
Step 2:
When I click again on TextView (it's vertical custom TextView btw) it should go back to Step1
I want to put this layout into custom dialog and it should always be on my right side of the screen?
Any ideas how to solve this?
I can do this with two layouts and changing contentView of dialog on every click, but it seems like a very dirty solution. Is there some nice and fancy way to do this?

The simplest solution is probably just inflating all the Views, set their visibility accordingly, and move the TextView when the user clicks on it.
From the looks of it, it seems like you want to slide between a lot of views by clicking the TextView? If so, you might want to look into something called ViewPager, with a little customization you might be able to archive that.

Create two different layout's mentioned in images like 1) layoutone.xml 2)layouttwo.xml
Now crete on linearlayout in add that layout in your alertdialog. Also add layoutone in that linearlayout by inflating that layout. Now on click of that textview just removeallviews from that linearlayuout & inflate second layout & vice varsa.

Android: How can I create a layout within a layout ?

In my app I want to have a button that if the user clicks it
than a new layout is opened within the current (acually the main) layout.
the new layout should not fill all of the screen and parts of the previous layout
should be grayed out.
Any ideas on how to do this ?

You can show a hidden layout within your button's onClick event by calling
view.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE)
You can also fade out view elements or whole views with
view.setAlpha(75);
view.setBackgroundColor(Color.GRAY);
Note that "view" in the first example is your layout element.. LinearLayout, RelativeLayout, etc. and in the 2nd example, "view" is the element(s) you're trying to gray out.

Follow the answer of SBerg413. And for more information. you can take the relativelayout for the part that you want to hide and display on the button click.
And as like SBerg413 answer. you can hide the respective layout and show the layout you want to display.
Hope it will help you.
Thanks.

you can use a ViewFlipper to achieve what you want, position the viewflipper where the child views should fit (part of the screen you say)..
Inflate the rest of the "child" layouts from other xml, add them to the flipper and switch between them when you want...

How to animate text change in TextView?

Trying to do the following:
animTimeChange = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, android.R.anim.slide_in_left);
itemTime.startAnimation(animTimeChange);
itemTime.setText("new text");
but the animation happens thru blank screen (i.e. original text is cleared, then new text appears with animation). How to avoid that blank screen?
(my TextView is part of ListView row, I've tried to use TextSwitcher - it doesn't work properly; for ViewFlipper - I am not sure where add Views there, since this is part of the ListView)

TextSwitcher is exactly what you should be using for this. Check out the API Demo for TextSwitcher.
The way you should implement this is in your ListAdapter, provide TextSwitcher views to the ListView instead of TextViews. Then you can just call TextSwitcher.setText() on the list item you want to change.
Note that you should imediately get rid of your reference to the list item to avoid REALLY messing up listview.