I am aware about layout weight in linear layout. Can i assign layout weight in relative layout.
example: two image view in a layout which fills the layout in the ratio 60:40. first image should take up 60% of the whole screen height and the second image has to take the remaining 40% of the screen.
Don't just answer for this example problem alone please tell me the concept precisely or post some reference links about layout weight in relative layout. Thanks in advance.
You can place an invisible view in center of your layout and align your view in left and right. Here is an example
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/view"
android:background="#fffba2" />
<View
android:id="#+id/view"
android:layout_width="1dp"
android:layout_height="1dp"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:visibility="invisible" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/view"
android:background="#ba2fff" />
</RelativeLayout>
There is no need of weights with Relative Layout. You can move around the Image Views to make sure that they are in correct proportion. Weights are only used with LinearLayout.
Actually you cannot use weight in a RelativeLayout but you can use a combination of Relative and Linear layouts in order to take both advantages of them!
Tip: Try to use as less layouts as possible to avoid slow UI, because of multiple screen measurements! [1] [2]
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I want to display TextView after ImageView but right now Text is coming over Image on my Android screen.
layout:
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context="in.sitemakers.sitemakers.AboutFragment">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/about_image"
android:src="#drawable/sitemakers_laptops"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:layout_height="420dp" />
<TextView
android:layout_below="#+id/about_image"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Site Makers is the web development company engage in the.."
/>
</FrameLayout>
Please see above screenshot and help me update my XML in such a way so that TextView will come after ImageView.
Replace FrameLayout with LinearLayout or RelativeLayout because FrameLayout place view one over another
LinearLayout : Place child view in linear fashion , one after another either horizontally or vertically.
Note : Linear layout also let you allocate the available width and height among child views dynamically as per assigned weight property value.
RelativeLayout :
A Layout where the positions of the children can be described in relation to each other or to the parent
There are many other ViewGroups you can use as per the instructions
Note : Don't use px instead use dp as android:layout_height="420dp" because px represent actual screen pixel which restrict to keep the same size of your views on large screen (views will be quite small) , as mentioned here with Density independence
You can use linearlayout with orientation="vertical" and Its really easy to implement.
You can use LinearLayout or RelativeLayout
If You use LinearLayout So you can set orientation="vertical"
If You use RelativeLayout So you can use android:layout_below="#id/about_image" in Your TextView.
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
orientation="vertical"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/about_image"
android:src="#drawable/sitemakers_laptops"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:layout_height="420px" />
<TextView
android:layout_below="#+id/about_image"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Site Makers is the web development company engage in the.."/>
</LinearLayout>
I want to use two child layout (one linear layout and one relative layout) inside a parent layout (relative layout) in such a way that both of the child layout will take exactly half of the screen and items inside of each child layout will not cause one child layout to get more width than another one!
It is pretty easy, use parameter layout_weight in children of LinearLayout, something like this:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
If I understand correctly from your illustration, the red box is a RelativeLayout, whereas the green boxes are a LinearLayout and a RelativeLayout.
A simple solution would be to center an empty View inside the RelativeLayout and align the two child Views against it:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/v_center" />
<View
android:id="#+id/v_center"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_centerInParent="true" />
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/v_center" />
</RelativeLayout>
A nice little bonus here is that you can provide some spacing between the two by specifying the View's dimensions.
Beware, however, that RelativeLayouts aren't very efficient, and nesting them is an especially bad idea. I suggest using the hierarchy viewer tool to inspect the layout timings to make sure it's relatively fast, and to try to avoid nesting the layouts in this fashion.
First off, this is not a duplicate question, to best of my ability I've tried all (there are many) similar questions. Solutions to such problems appear to be very subjective, specific to a given scenario.
My layout currently appears as follows. Black boxes are images (logo and body, respectively), colours represent each layout:
My XML:
<?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="match_parent"
android:background="#000"
android:padding="0px"
android:layout_margin="0px"
android:orientation="vertical">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_weight="16"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#FFF"
android:gravity="top|center"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/logo"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:src="#drawable/logo"
android:layout_gravity="top|center" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_weight="4"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#00F"
android:gravity="bottom|left"
android:orientation="vertical">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/body"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:src="#drawable/body"
android:layout_gravity="bottom|left" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Here you can see I have a parent linear layout, split into two children linear layouts. This is because I need the images to be positioned differently within that part of the page.
In a nutshell, I need logo to be vertically aligned to the top, and body horizontally aligned to bottom-left.
Now, a few things that I've tried:
Using RelativeLayout rather than Linear
Switching gravity with layout_gravity for both LinearLayout and ImageView, along with combinations of excluding each
Fairly confident match_parent for width and height is what I want, but I have tried different combinations with wrap_content
What I've come to understand:
gravity:top requires the parent view use orientation:horizontal
gravity:left requires the parent view use orientation:vertical
gravity applies to the children of the view
linear_gravity applies how the child aligns with it's parent
Using the same value for gravity on the parent and linear_gravity on the child might have the same effect (when using one instead of the other)?
Hopefully this is enough information. I'm having a very difficult time wrapping my head around how these layouts work.
Thank you SO much for the help!
I think your problem is you are setting dimensions of the image views to match_parent. I would use a RelativeLayout as it seems to be the most efficient in your case (pseudo-XML-code):
RelativeLayout (width=match_parent, height=match_parent)
ImageView (width=wrap_content, height=wrap_content,
alignParentTop=true, centerHorizontal=true)
ImageView (width=wrap_content, height=wrap_content,
alignParentBottom=true, alignParentLeft=true)
You don't need any gravity setting here. You might want to play with the scaleType attribute depending on your image sizes.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/frameLayout1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#drawable/background_gradient" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="center" >
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/buttonLog"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/log"
android:onClick="log" />
</RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>
I was expecting my button to appear in the center of the screen. However, it appears on the TOP center of the screen (that is, the button is center horizontally, but not vertically).
It seems to me that the RelativeLayout is behaving like it was defined with "wrap_content" instead of "fill_parent".
The funny thing is that, if I give an actual value to my RelativeLayout height property (android:layout_height), like:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:gravity="center" >
Then the button behaves correctly (i.e. the button is also centred vertically). But I don`t want to use actual values. I want to use fill_parent! Why doesn't it work with "fill_parent" ??
Does anybody know what's going on?
Thank you in advance!
RelativeLayout requires you to specify the position of the elements in the Layout. I don't see any layout_below or layout_toLeftOf tags. Gravity works on LinearLayouts. In general, LinearLayouts are easier to work with, and they scale much better to different screen sizes. I suggest you replace the RelativeLayout by a LinearLayout, and also the FrameLayout by a LinearLayout. You use a FrameLayout typically if you want to use multiple overlapping layouts, which you don't do.
I recommend you read up on using layouts in the Android sdk reference documentation, like here: http://bit.ly/djmnn7
You specified fill_parent for both the layout_width and layout_height of your RelativeLayout, therefore it fills up it's parent view.
By default, a relative layout arranges it's children to the top-left corner, regardless you use fill_parent for the size.
You should achieve the desired aspect by taking advantage of the RelativeLayout's own attribute set, which helps you arrange the child views relatively to each other or to their parent:
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/buttonLog"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:background="#drawable/log"
android:onClick="log" />
Using the android:layout_centerInParent you can achieve this. This attribute if set true, centers this child horizontally and vertically within its parent.
Margins in group layouts do not seem to work.
For example,
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_margin="40dip"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<Button
android:id="#+id/button"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:text="I'm a button" />
</LinearLayout>
should display a button with 40p margins on all sides. However, it has 80p margins on the right and bottom.
Am I doing something wrong?
Is this a bug?
A workaround would be to use gravity, but this only works with even margins.
BTW, there is a similar question posted here but has not been answered.
android:padding="40dp" on the LinearLayout or android:layout_margin="40dp" on the Button will give you the effect you want. Padding defines the space between a views edges and its content, layout margin defines extra space on the sides of a view.
The problem is actually the way FrameLayout interprets margins. setContentView() attaches your "main" layout to a FrameLayout, which is the actual root of the view hierarchy (you can see that with Hierarchy Viewer) and is offered to you by the phone.
Margins are managed by the parent layout, so in this case that main FrameLayout. I don't know if it's a feature or a bug, but that's how this layout interprets margins.
So well, the solution was already posted while I was typing: use padding instead.
if you need set margin for a layout, simply wrap it with another linear or relative layout
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<LinearLayout android:layout_margin="40dip"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<Button android:id="#+id/button"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:text="I'm a button" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Wrapping the Linear Layout with another layout is the best strategy.