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Prevent clicked button to cover the foreground view

My goal is to create a button with an image on the top right-hand corner of it.
Something like this
The problem I run into when I click on the button the help icon is covered, it looks awkward, I would like to have it be always on top whereas the clicked button still have animation clicking effect but all this happens underneath of the help icon, instead, I have the following
My xml looks like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:gravity="center">
<Button
style="#style/Material.BigButton"
android:id="#+id/button"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-medium"
android:layout_width="150dp"
android:layout_height="29dp"
android:paddingLeft="16dp"
android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
android:paddingRight="16dp"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:text="button"
android:background="#drawable/rounded_button"/>
<Button
style="#style/Material.BigButton"
android:id="#+id/help"
android:layout_width="60dp"
android:layout_height="20dp"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginLeft="130dp"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-black"
android:textSize="10dp"
android:text="help"
android:textColor="#color/black" />
</RelativeLayout>
Spending a day looking for a similar problem, the only this I found it to disable a button animation android:stateListAnimator="#null" which doesn't match my design. I played with various of attributes like.
android:elevation=
android:translationZ=
Nothing worked for me.
Any direction will be appreciated.
Thanks

I found the solution
Adding Badge (Item Count) to Android Button

How to dynamically add a TextView/ImageView to a ListView item in Android

I am creating a chatting app in Android.
I was able to create the normal text chat list view with the following as the list item layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/chat_msg_view"
android:layout_width="250dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/msg_send_time"
android:layout_width="250dp"
android:layout_height="20dp"
android:layout_below="#+id/chat_msg_view"
android:layout_margin="2dp"
android:paddingTop="2dp"
android:textColor="#android:color/holo_blue_dark" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/msg_status"
android:layout_width="250dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/msg_send_time"
android:layout_margin="2dp"
android:paddingTop="2dp"
android:textColor="#android:color/holo_blue_dark" />
</RelativeLayout>
But now i am trying to send images as well via chat. So now i need to replace the first TextView in the above layout to ImageView if content being sent is IMAGE.
What is a good approach to do this.

There are lots of approaches you can use. If you are using a list view adapter you can use itemType to change the entire list item layout (good if you are changing the entire layout, but can be a bit complicated) or you can place an image view at the same location in your layout as the text view and show or hide which ever one you are using. I.E. If showing image, show the image view and hide the text view, if you are showing the text view, show the text and hide the image. Then you don't need to insert/remove views at run time, which is a little more complicated.
Your layout might look a bit like this...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/chat_msg_view"
android:layout_width="250dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"/>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/chat_image_view"
android:layout_width="250dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:visibility="gone"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/msg_send_time"
android:layout_width="250dp"
android:layout_height="20dp"
android:layout_below="#+id/chat_msg_view"
android:layout_margin="2dp"
android:paddingTop="2dp"
android:textColor="#android:color/holo_blue_dark" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/msg_status"
android:layout_width="250dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/msg_send_time"
android:layout_margin="2dp"
android:paddingTop="2dp"
android:textColor="#android:color/holo_blue_dark" />
</RelativeLayout>
Notice how chat_image_view is also aligned to parent left.. it will be on top of the text view, but it has visibility "gone" so you wont see it.
Hope this helps, good luck.

Adding an EditText to jfeinstein sliding menu

I am working on an android project and I am making use of jfeinstein sliding menu library, library can be located at https://github.com/jfeinstein10/slidingmenu.
I have got the library working fine and have amended my code to make it work with other components, not just TextViews, such as Switches. I am now trying to add an EditText to the menu so that the user can enter directly in the box without having to switch activities.
I have it so I have a called MenuAdapter which extends ArrayAdapter. This then has a series of constructors which, based on the constructor and what values are passed into, determine which control is added to the sliding menu. The EditText is being added to the sliding menu and the hint is being sent, and when I tap on the edit text the keyboard is displayed but if I type anything, its not shown in the EditText. However, oddly, if I long press on the edit text and click paste, I can view the content that is pasted so its just typing that's not working.
Below is the XML layout, each component is hidden using the visibility set to gone and then is set to be displayed dependent on the constructor that was used.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/row_icon"
android:paddingLeft="25dp"
android:layout_width="50dp"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:padding="10dp"
android:visibility="gone" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/row_title"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:padding="10dp"
android:text="Medium Text"
android:textAppearance="#android:style/TextAppearance.Medium"
android:visibility="gone"
android:textColor="#color/White" />
<Switch
android:id="#+id/row_switch"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:padding="10dp"
android:visibility="gone"
android:textColor="#color/White"/>
<EditText
android:id="#+id/row_edittext"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:padding="10dp"
android:visibility="gone"
android:textColor="#android:color/white" />
</LinearLayout>
Below is the code for how the EditText is being addd to the menu.
case EDITEXT:
EditText editText = (EditText)convertView.findViewById(getItem(position).viewID);
editText.setHint(getItem(position).hint);
editText.setEnabled(true);
editText.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
break;
Thanks for any help you can provide.

How to create an overlay view in Android which toggles on button click

I want to create and overlay view when a button is clicked. Something like clicking smileys button in Whatsapp.
I have created a framelayout with default visibility as GONE and added an onclick listener on smiley button to toggle its visibility.
My layout XML:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/smileyButton"
android:layout_width="24dip"
android:layout_height="48dip"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:contentDescription="#string/contactIconContentDescription"
android:src="#drawable/emo_im_happy" />
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/smileyButton" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/chat_smiley_list"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textColor="#android:color/white" />
</FrameLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
I have added onClickListener to smileyButton which toggles visibility of chat_smiley_list.
Other than some positioning problems, I am not sure whether this is the best way to do it.

I think you could use a Context Menu: documentation

Positioning a progress bar behind a button

I have a Button that is defined in a RelativeLayout as follows:
<Button
android:id="#+id/search_button"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/current_location"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
android:paddingBottom="30dp"
android:paddingTop="30dp"
android:text="#string/search" />
I would like to add a ProgressBar behind the Button that occupies the exact same space as the Button, so that when the button is disabled (translucent), you can see the progress bar behind it. How would I do this?

To do this I had to define the button in my main.xml first, followed by the progress bar as follows:
<Button
android:id="#+id/search_button"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/current_location"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
android:paddingBottom="30dp"
android:paddingTop="30dp"
android:text="#string/search" />
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/cooldown_bar"
style="#android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/search_button"
android:layout_below="#id/current_location"
android:layout_marginBottom="6dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="9dp"
android:layout_marginRight="9dp"
android:layout_marginTop="1dp"
android:indeterminate="false"
android:progressDrawable="#drawable/progress_bar" />
Then, once I had initialized all the GUI components, I had to bring the button back in front of the progress bar with:
searchButton.bringToFront();
The end result
Button when enabled:
Button when disabled with progress bar:

put this right before the button inside the relative layout in your xml:
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/descriptive_name"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/current_location"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
android:paddingBottom="30dp"
android:paddingTop="30dp"
/>
by using all of the same layotu and padding attributes we can make sure the View will be in the same spot and roughly the same size (height could be different because of wrap_content) I think if you put the progress bar first in the layout file then the button should appear on top.
But also you can enforce whatever policy you want with view.setVisibility(visibility-ness)just make sure whenever you make one visible you make the other invisible.
that way in-case I am wrong about how they stack by default based on their position in the file (which I could be, I didn't verify it just now) and in the event you don't want to move the progress bar to bellow the button in the file, you could still achieve the same thing from the users perspective.