Duplicate of this.
I am not able to add comment to the existing question that's why I have ask new question.
There is one solution in the above question "if your Android device is in landscape mode and you are loading a layout the android system will look if this layout file exists in the /res/layout-land folder. If it does not exist in this folder it will load the layout from the normal /res/layout folder."
But some how it is not working for me. I have added folder called land in layout folder also added xml file with same name, but it is still loading xml file from the main layout folder , when my screen is in landscape mode.
Is there any other solution ?
Here is the link of the answer.
It just has to do with SDK version(11 and 13).
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I have already created a Landscape variation and a Tablet variation of my layout. However, I also want to create a variation that is just for tablets in landscape mode. I had thought this would be possible by clicking the orientation button in the design toolbar, then selecting 'Create Other..." to select multiple qualifiers. However Android Studio will not allow me to create a variant with both the sw-600 and land qualifiers. It gives me an error message saying the layout resource already exists. But looking in my project directory, I don't see it.
I'm still pretty new to android so I apologize if the answer to this should be obvious. Thanks for any help you can give!
Screenshot showing my Project directory, new resource dialog, and error message
What you are looking for is layout-sw600dp-land. See the Add orientation qualifiers Android developer documentation for more information.
To do this, manually create a new folder under your res directory named layout-sw600dp-land from the command line and place your new layout xml file there.
I have the following layout:
I need the following layout in portrait mode:
But instead of that I obtain the following one that I don't know how to modify it:
How can I do that?
Fastest way for Android Studio 3.x.x
1.Go to the design tab of the activity layout
2.At the top you should press on the orientation for preview button, there is a option to create a landscape layout (check image), a new folder will be created as your xml layout file for that particular orientation
Create a layout-land folder in res folder and create xml with the same name in this folder.
You could create a seperate Layout for Landscape mode.Just name it the name as your current layout but make sure to add it in the folder layout-land.
Right click on res - layout and then Add New and for the folder write layout-land. Name should be - as said before - the same as your current layout.
When now changing the orientation to landscape, Android will use this layout.
Just create layout-land folder near layout folder and create xml with the same name.
No need to create layout-land. Google has an open sourced FlexBox Layout that works adaptive on screen size /orientation changes like CSS.
Have a look at google's developer site for examples.
I want to support separate UIs for both portrait and landscape mode in my android studio project, for which I need to have a folder with name - 'layout-land', to create it I followed below steps:
Right Click on res folder and create a new directory
Give name - 'layout-land'
Problem is- the created folder is not appearing within res folder :(
I am clueless, please suggest.
That's the slightly confusing 'android' view of Android Studio. It shows only one layout folder (also shows only one drawable folder) which really contains all folders. Switch the view to 'project' and you'll see all folders.
I'm posting this just in case anyone really likes Android hirearchy of the project (note: other answers using classic hirearchy are correct as well).
All layout dirs with different qualifiers are categorized under name "layout". Just right click on the "layout" create your xml with any qualifier you need and you'll get this hirearchy (image below).
Notice activity_main.xml is not a directorty but a category collecting all activity_main.xml files with different qualifiers.
This categorizing pattern appears quite often in Android hirearchy.
My application has a mobile UI and tablet UI. for tablet UI specific layouts are placed in layout-large folder.
What I noticed recently is, when I change the layout of tablet it changes the XML file of the phone xml file too which is in the layout folder.
I don't know why this happens. How to resolve this issue?? I hope it has something to do with Eclipse.
At the top of the graphical editor, you can select which layout you are editing. In no case should it edit both, though.
my Android xml fle Design look like this.
but i want to view like this so how can do this?
Right click on xml and select open with -> Android XML Resources Editor and also
you can try open with -> Android Layout Editor to have Design Layout tab.
I also faced this problem earlier for all xml files but not for manifest file ,now it resolved
in my application our requirement is When the orientation of the activity changes place the appropriate land folder and xml files.in that we give wrong naming conventions for the layout folders instead of layout-land,layout-land-hdpi,layout-land-mdpi,layout-land-ldpi,layout-port,layout-port-hdpi,layout-port-mdpi,layout-port-ldpi when ever we correct the naming conventions it comes normally.