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Android: how to make frame layout covering other UI components from the bottom?

I would like to display on the bottom of the view frame layout which has some layouts inside of the FrameLayout hidden and are displayed after some button click. I would like to display the FrameLayout to start from bottom of the screen above all other views.
How can i do it in the right way please?
Many thanks for any advice.

I have implemented something similar to what you would like to achieve...first of all you should place your entire Activity of Fragment layout inside a CoordinatorLayout. Then you should place the FrameLayout which you want to show above all other views as the last View inside the CoordinatorLayout. You could give the FrameLayout a fixed height(200px) and the same negative value as margin bottom(-200px) so it can not be visible in the first place. And after some button click you can animate your desired view (in this case FrameLayout) to overlap all other views starting from the bottom of the screen.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<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"
android:orientation="vertical">
//Your views here
<FrameLayout //Your FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="200px" android:layout_marginBottom="-200px">
//Place whatever views you prefer here
</FrameLayout>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

Since Android Support Library 23.2 you can use Materials Bottom Sheets like the Google Map one:
Include the support design library (use the most recent version):
compile 'com.android.support:design:24.1.1'
You are supposed to use a component which is aware of nested scrolling like NestedScrollView (which extends FrameLayout by the way) and RecyclerView inside a CoordinatorLayout and add this behavior to it:
app:layout_behavior="android.support.design.widget.BottomSheetBehavior"
And to make it visible on the bottom just a little:
app:behavior_peekHeight="64dp"

scrollable tabs custom user Interface

I am working on a Scrollable tabs and came to observe a custom scrollable tabe in a mediaplayer app but don't know what is used in this as per my knowledge it is like scrollable tabs.Any hint how to achieve this while changing from one fragment to another .I want to show a gape in the fragment while scrolling as in this app?THIS is what I created
this is what i want a gape between two fragment
I tried to give padding in the view pager but it is not working at all.
my layout content main .xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/pager"
android:background="#drawable/gradient2"
>
<android.support.v4.view.PagerTitleStrip
android:id="#+id/title"
style="#style/viewPagerTitleStrip"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_gravity="top"
android:paddingTop="4dp"
android:paddingBottom="4dp"
android:background="#drawable/gradient1">
</android.support.v4.view.PagerTitleStrip>
</android.support.v4.view.ViewPager>
I tried both padding and margine in the ViewPager but it is not working

Here is the similar property used try this https://github.com/astuetz/PagerSlidingTabStrip
Since I am using ViewPager, the easiest way to achieve some space is to use the setPageMargin() method of Viewpager, which in my case will be
ViewPager pager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.pager);
pager.setPageMargin(200);
//200 is value in pixel
There is also a method setPageMarginDrawable() sets a drawable that will be used to fill the margin between pages (Android documentation).

Create an horizontal menu

I'm new to Android development and I have to build an Android version of a iOs app. I have to build an horizontal menu in the bottom of the screen. Something like MOVIES|TV SHOWS|PERSONAL VIDEOS in this image
How do you suggest me to proceed? If I did an activity layout with a tabbed o linear layout at the bottom and fragments for the above contents?

#Ivan Lasorsa :
You can use ViewPager Fragment as main layout and for individual pager views we use Fragments. The tabs are part of Action Bar.
Swipe-view should consume the entire layout, then your layout looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/pager"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
So please take a look Android Tab Layout with Swipeable Views Here . I hope it will helps you .

It's the tabbed activity, here is the doc ;)

I don't recommend bottom tab bar
because it causes the wrong touch
Pure-Android : http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/pure-android.html
but if you have to implement, you can read to
https://stackoverflow.com/a/7431480/2530660

How add custom view top of the android action bar

How to add a custom view top the android navigation bar like above image. when user click on the action bar need to push the main content down and add the custom layout top of the action bar.please how to accomplish this any one suggest a solution
Thanks
Rahul

An easy solution would be to use those views in the actual ActionBar like this: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html#ActionView. And then take all your layouts and put them inside a RelativeLayout and set their android:layout_below="" to a layout that corresponds to the ActionBar you want to use. So in a step by step way:
Create an action_bar.xml that has the items you want your actionbar to have (ImageViews or Buttons, w/e)
Include this layout in all the Layouts you will use (or in your main layout if you're using Fragments to display content).Like this:
<include layout="#layout/action_bar"
android:id="#+id/action_bar"
android: ... />
Make your Layout position itself below this layout (Using a FrameLayout for example)
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/content_frame"
android:layout_below="#+id/action_bar"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>
Include the ActionViews (Spinner and tabs) in the ActionBar like it's taught in the link up there.

Android: ViewPager inside a layout

I have an activity that has a LinearLayout which in turn is split in three more LinearLayouts .
I want to make the top-third horizontally 'swipable'. The solution I assume to make a view swipable is to implement ViewPagers. I am not able to figure out how to get a ViewPager inside a LinearLayout. Also I would rather NOT have tabs on top of each view inside ViewPager.

My solution will be to use a ViewFlipper:
<LinearLayout ... >
<ViewFlipper>
<RelativeLayout>
<!-- your design here (part1)-->
</Relativelayout>
<RelativeLayout (redifine with same id)>
<!-- your design (part2)-->
</RelativeLayout>
<!--repeat for further parts of your design-->
</ViewFlipper>
</LinearLayout>

I am not able to figure out how to get a ViewPager inside a LinearLayout
Same way you get anythign else into a LinearLayout.
<LinearLayout ... >
<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager ... />
<!-- other children -->
</LinearLayout>
It won't have tabs on top since those are not part of ViewPager itself. I recommend spending time looking at the ViewPager docs.