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ImageView overlay not working

I have 2 layouts in my xml, a CircularImageView and a ImageView, and the ImageView must appear on top of the CircularImageView.
I've tried:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/fragment_kids_register_ll_kid"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/md_white_1000"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<RelativeLayout
android:padding="16dp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<com.mikhaellopez.circularimageview.CircularImageView
android:id="#+id/fragment_kids_row_img_kids"
android:layout_width="70dp"
android:layout_height="70dp"
android:src="#drawable/ic_boy"
/>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/fragment_kids_row_iv_crown"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/fragment_kids_row_img_kids"
android:layout_marginLeft="-26dp"
android:layout_marginTop="-22dp"
android:layout_width="48dp"
android:layout_height="48dp"
android:src="#drawable/ic_crown"/>
</RelativeLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/fragment_kids_row_tv_name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:textColor="#color/md_black_1000"
android:textSize="24sp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/fragment_kids_row_tv_age"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:text="1 ano e 4 meses"
android:textColor="#808080"
android:textSize="12sp" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
And it is getting cut off:
I need the image to be shown exactly at that position in the picture, but not "cropped", what I am missing here ?
BTW, this component is part of a RecyclerView row.
EDIT ---
I forgot to mention, the image is just a placeholder to show the Avatar, but the image is dinamically populated !
Thanks !

The padding (16dp) that you are applying to the first relativeLayout makes you think that there is more place and that you can move up the imageView. Actually the margin is like a gap, it doesn't extend your layout.
This is the solution I suggest , using a FrameLayout
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="100dp"
android:layout_height="100dp">
<com.mikhaellopez.circularimageview.CircularImageView
android:id="#+id/fragment_kids_row_img_kids"
android:layout_gravity = "center"
android:layout_width="70dp"
android:layout_height="70dp"
android:src="#drawable/ic_boy"
/>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/fragment_kids_row_iv_crown"
android:layout_width="48dp"
android:layout_height="48dp"
android:src="#drawable/ic_crown"
android:layout_gravity="right|top" />
</FrameLayout>
EDIT : You don't have to use a frameLayout, you can use a relativeLayout if you want to set different margins. The point here is really to make your containing layout bigger so you can place the imageview easily.

If you want one image to be on top of another, why you use android:layout_toRightOf?
Remove it and second image should cover first one.
Also you can try to remove margins at second image and use centerInParent, centerVertically or centerHorizontally.
Or maybe I didn't got all the problem ) then pls provide more details. Thanks.

Have you tried Using an image editor like Paint/Photoshop and merging the two images? Then you can just display one image in your view.

try using a linear layout with the orientation set to vertical.

How to achieve the following layout on Android

I'm trying to build the following layout on Android without any success.
I want a text to be displayed on my screen. It can take the whole width, but must be centered horizontally.
On the same line, on the right side of the screen I want to display a small layout. It shouldn't impact the horizontal centering of the main text and the main text shouldn't be visible behind the layout displayed on the right.
I cannot use a hard color for my layout background as it's displayed on a transparent background over a bitmap...
Any idea on how to achieve this ?
I can either use a RelativeLayout in which case the main text isn't centered based on the middle of the screen (it takes the right layout width into account)
Or the text is displayed behind the right layout...
Edit:
Here is one of my test
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="bottom|center_horizontal"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif"
android:layout_marginLeft="2dp"
android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textColor="?android:attr/textColorPrimary"
android:textSize="17sp"
android:text="very looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong text"
android:textStyle="bold" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:padding="3dp"
android:visibility="visible" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="24dp"
android:layout_height="24dp"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:filter="true"
android:src="#drawable/device_access_time" />
<Spinner
android:layout_width="20dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

RelativeLayouts adhere to the principle of z-indexes, so if you put the right-aligned layout first, the centered text view will be drawn correctly on top.

Horizontal ScrollView above a Button from LinearLayout

What I wish to achieve is something like this:
The thing is: after I tap on the circle button on the bottom layout, it appears a HorizontalScrollView with the possible colors of the product (which I will have to download).
I tried something like this:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/lay_productdetailed_bottombar"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/transparent"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/btn_productdetailed_fullscreen"
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Full" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/btn_productdetailed_colors"
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Colors" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/btn_productdetailed_sizes"
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Sizes" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/btn_productdetailed_buy"
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Buy" />
</LinearLayout>
<HorizontalScrollView
android:id="#+id/hscroll_productdetailed_colors"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="#+id/btn_productdetailed_colors" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/lay_productdetailed_colors"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="2dp" >
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="60dp"
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" />
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="60dp"
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical" />
</LinearLayout>
</HorizontalScrollView>
</RelativeLayout>
those 2 ImageButtons are just for testing, to watch their position on the screen (Eclipse).
This code does not seem to align the horizontal scrollview above the button at all. Any ideas on how can I achieve that?
PS. Another question would be: Can I make those buttons rounded, like in the pic, without creating a a class that extends Shape?

You can't add rules placing children of a RelativeLayout in regards of views that are not direct siblings of those views. This means that your HorizontalScrollView can't be placed relative to that Button because the Button isn't placed as a direct child for the RelativeLayout that holds the HorizontalScrollView.
At best you could place the HorizontalScrollView above the lay_productdetailed_bottombar LinearLayout but, as I said, this would not give you positioning control relative to the Button. Another approach would be a PopupWindow holding the HorizontalScrollView.
Judging by the image you probably want the HorizontalScrollView to be centered around the center of the Button which can't be done in the xml layout, you can do it only by manually calculating the dimensions.
Can I make those buttons rounded, like in the pic, without creating a
a class that extends Shape?
No, you'll need to create it yourself.

Relative Layout giving a lot of trouble

Here's the code:
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/tc"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/tc"
android:layout_marginLeft="185dip"
android:layout_marginTop="25dip"
>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/tc_icon"
android:background="#drawable/count_icon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/tc"
android:layout_mar
/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tc_icon_text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dip"
android:text="1"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:textColor="#f7e906"
android:textStyle="bold"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
I have somehow managed to make the image and the text views overlap each other (which I wanted). Now, I want them to be placed to the bottom left corner of their parent RelativeLayout (with id 'tc').... However, they just wouldn't move.
If I used alignParentBottom.... the entire relative layout stretches across the screen and aligns to its parent relativeLayout.
Please help. Thanks! :)

If you wanna overlap an image and a textview, simplw use a android:drawableleft or ony position where you want.
For example:
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tc_icon_text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dip"
android:text="1"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:textColor="#f7e906"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:drawableleft="#drawable/yourimage.jpg"/>
This will give you an image on the left of your textview. Check it out

Center multiple items in a RelativeLayout without putting them in a container?

I have a RelativeLayout containing a pair of side-by-side buttons, which I want to be centered within the layout. I could just put the buttons in a LinearLayout and center that in the RelativeLayout, but I want to keep my xml as clean as possible.
Here's what I tried, this just puts the "apply" button in the center and the "undo" button to the left of it:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="15sp">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/instructions"
android:text="#string/instructions"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="15sp"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/apply"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="#string/apply"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:layout_below="#id/instructions"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/undo"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="#string/undo"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/apply"
android:layout_below="#id/instructions"
/>
</RelativeLayout>

android:gravity will align the content inside the view or layout it is used on.
android:layout_gravity will align the view or layout inside of his parent.
So adding
android:gravity="center"
to your RelativeLayout should do the trick...
Like this:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_marginTop="15sp">
</RelativeLayout>

Here is an extension of BrainCrash's answer. It is a non nested option that groups and centers all three horizontally and vertically. In addition, it takes the top TextView and centers it horizontally across both buttons. If desired, you can then center the text within the TextView with android:gravity="center". I also removed the margins, added color, and set the RelativeLayout height to fill_parent to highlight the layout. Tested on API 11.
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:background="#android:color/black"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/instructions"
android:text="TEST"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:background="#android:color/darker_gray"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/undo"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/apply"
android:gravity="center"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/apply"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="APPLY"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:layout_below="#id/instructions"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/undo"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="UNDO"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/apply"
android:layout_below="#id/instructions"
/>
</RelativeLayout>

android:layout_gravity="center"
will almost give what you're looking for.

Here is a combination of the above answer's that solved my specific situation:
Centering two separate labels within a layout that also includes a button in the left most position of the same layout (button, label, label, from left to right, where the labels are centered relative to the layout containing all three views - that is, the button doesn't push the labels off center).
I solved this by nesting two RelativeLayout's, where the outer most layout included the
Button and an Inner-RelativeLayout.
The Inner-RelativeLayout contained the two text labels (TextView's).
Here is a snippet that provides the details of how the centering and other layout stuff was done:
see: RelativeLayout Gravity not applied? and
Gravity and layout_gravity on Android
for the difference's between gravity and layout_gravity.
Tweak the paddingLeft on the btn_button1 Button to see that the TextView's do not move.
(My apologies to havexz for the downvotes. I was too hasty in thinking that just b/c your suggestions didn't solve the exact question being ask, that they do help to solve very similar situations (the answer here solves a very specific situation, and only the combination of all these answer's solved my problem. I tried upvoting, but it won't let me unless I edit the answer's, which I don't want to do.)
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/rl_outer"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="50dip"
android:background="#FF0000FF">
<Button
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/btn_button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FF00FF00"
android:text="<"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:paddingLeft="40dip"/>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/rl_inner"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FFFF00FF"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:gravity="center">
<TextView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/tv_text1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FF505050"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:textColor="#FFFFFFFF"
android:text="Complaint #"
android:gravity="center"/>
<TextView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/tv_text2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FF505050"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:textColor="#FFFFFFFF"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/tv_text1"
android:gravity="center"/>
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

LinearLayout is a good option. Other than that there are options like create an invisible view and center that and then align left button to the left it and right on the right of it. BUT those are just work arounds.