Placing a view to exact same place for all android devices - android

My task is to allow user to upload an image and let user to put a custom view anywhere he clicks. (Like taging a pic on facebook) That is simple by getting the touch location and dynamically adding view to a relative layout and setting leftMargin and topMargin.
But I want this custom component to get drawn in the 'exact' same position in every android device.
For example; Think that you uploaded a picture into your profile and tag someone, other people who look at your pic with different devices should see the tag in the exact same place relative to the pic.
I know that I have to take account of screen density as well but don't know how to manipulate x, y according to that.
Look at the example screenshot:
(Blue box is put by user click)
This screenshot is from a test device with screen density 1, another device with density 1.5 shows the blue box in a different position.
(Images Updated:)
This is a test code:
icon = new ImageView(getActivity());
icon.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.blue));
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(30, 40);
int density = this.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
params.leftMargin = (int)(posX/density);
params.topMargin = (int)(posY/density);

Think that you uploaded a picture into your profile and tag someone, other people who look at your pic with different devices should see the tag in the exactly same place.
Then you do not want to be placing "a view to absolute X, Y for all android devices".
For example, suppose we have two devices, A and B. On Device A, your image is a small phone, and the image happens to be rendered at a size of 480 pixels high by 270 pixels wide. The user taps at a position that happens to be 80 pixels down from the top and 70 pixels in from the left.
Device B has a screen approximately the size of the country of Turkey. More specifically, your image is rendered at 1600km by 900km on an -mdpi screen density, in a portrait orientation, meaning the image is around 10,078,736,000 pixels high by 5,669,289,000 pixels wide.
You do not want to be putting your marker 80 pixels down from the top and 70 pixels in from the left. That will put the marker almost in the upper-left corner.
Assuming that you arrange to show your image at the same aspect ratio, you will want to save the percentages that the marker is from some corner. In this example, 80 pixels from the top is 80/480 or ~16.7% from the top, and 70 pixels in from the left is 70/270 or ~25.9% from the left. You would then apply the percentages to the size of the image on another device, and so show your marker ~16.7% from the top and ~25.9% from the left on the Turkey-sized screen. Or on a tablet. Or on a larger phone. Or on a TV. Or on whatever you are choosing to use.

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I am developing a simple game using libgdx in android. I created an actor. I want to resize the actor according to the screen size. Can anyone please suggest me a simple tutorial to do the same
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lets say your stage viewport is set to stage.setViewport(16,10,false) within your resize()-method.
This way, your screen will always show the region from (0,0) in the bottom left to (16,10) in the top-right corner...
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This class is what you are looking for. Lets say you have a 1600 * 900px monitor and you set your Viewport to 16 * 9, every unit in your Viewport will be 100px on your Screen.
This means, if you set your Stages Viewport to 16 * 9 an Actor with the size of 1 will be 100*100px big. If you are using a 800*450px monitor it will be 50*50px big.
There are also different Viewport types:
StretchViewport: Your Virtual Viewport gets stretched to fill the whole Screen. So if you have a 1600 * 900 monitor and a Virtual Viewport of 16/10, a 1x1 Actor will be 100px wide, but only 90px heigh. So the aspect ratio is not the same anymore.
FitViewport: If your Virtual Viewport has a different aspect ratio the Screen will be filled with black bars. So on a 1600*900 Screen with 16/10 virtual Viewport a collumn of 80px width on both sides of the Screen will be black ((virtualWidth / wirtualHeight) * realHeight = realWidth, physicalWidth - realWidth = blackWidth, to have the game in center blackWidth/2 on both sides), to keep aspect ratio.
There are also others, but those are the most important 2 imho. You can read more on the article i linked.
If you are not using the latest nightlies, you need to use camera. The constructor of the OrthographicCamera takes the viewport width and height. Those are the same as for the viewport. The difference is, that it is a "StretchViewport" automatically, so you have to manually set the glViewport like in this tutorial.
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http://i.imgur.com/rRCtzyl.png
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