I have a relative layout with background image (9patch). I have set this image as background to the layout using xml. When I add another relative layout which has buttons and textviews, there is little space left before the new layout. I didnt set any padding. I also tried by setting padding top to 0. If i remove the background image the alignment will be proper with no space left on top of new layout. I have also tried by setting match parent and fill parent in new layout but still the space remains on top of it. The space left is very little like 3dp-5dp.
can someone suggest about this issue pls.
EDIT : space is on top of the new layout horizontally and i have tried setting gravity to top and also top left.
The black pixels on the top and left define the stretch area of the 9-patch, while the pixels on the bottom and right define the fill area. My guess is that you have a fill area defined that does not cover the entire right and bottom edges.
Here's a good guide.
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I'm trying to create this kind of layout in android.
I'm using constraint layout. I want to divide the screen with height y to two halves with y/2 height each.
Each one of them will have a textview as title which takes the whole width and has constant height.
And a circular custom view which I would like to expand or shrink so it fills the whole half so the padding marked as 'auto' will all be the same but dynamic.
And p will be a minimum padding that the view can't be over them.
The aspect ratio should of those circles should not be changed.
Is that even possible doing it in the xml design editor? or do I have to do it programmatically.
Next step will be to arrange those halves to be side by side if it's a landscape view.
OK, I did it, Basically you drag the 4 edges of a each view to center it in the outside element. And set the margins to .
So I dragged title2 to all directions of the screen and it got centered. Then I dragged each of the circular views edges the same way so the upper view I dragged to title1 and the bottom to title2. The bottom view I dragged its top to title 2 and the bottom to the bottom of the screen.
Auto resizing is done by setting layout_width to 0 and layout_height 0.
I am using a ConstraintLayout with two views inside. An ImageView that varies in size depending on the image loaded and a View which acts as a custom made dropshadow for the Image. What I've been doing so far is adding 8dp padding to the ImageView and then aligning all of the edges of the View to the ImageViews, thereby making the View stick out 8dp underneath the ImageView.
Now for several reasons I don't want to keep the padding on the ImageView but I still want to achieve the same effect. So basically I would like to align the Left of the View to 8dp left of the Left of the ImageView (and the same for every other edge, right, top, bottom).
Is there any way to achieve this?
Thanks in advance!
I´ve been having problems with this too, it seems ConstraintLayout does not support negative margins yet: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=235306.
In my case, I want a 20dp negative margin to a set of overlapping images on a header image. So far, I'm positioning an empty TextView below the guideline my header image is connected to, with a 20dp top margin and aligning my overlapping image views to that.
I created a custom drawable for the background of an EditText. I need the text to be left and bottom aligned. It renders fine on screen but the text is not aligned to the right nor the bottom of the drawable. I also tried gravity:bottom and tried setting the padding on top in hopes it would move it down. Is there anything else I can do?
The right and bottom lines define the content area.
The line you draw on the right spans the top half of your image. That's why the text won't align to the bottom.
You should draw a slightly longer line.
Check out the image used by default. (I changed it to blue here though).
This will give the same result you are having. The text won't be aligned to the bottom.
Now if I extend the right line to the bottom, I would obtain the below image.
This will give you the expected result.
is there any possibility to change the properties of the last view in the layout to change its size to fit to the bottom of the whole screen (in any screen density).
Here is a sample image of my layout:
The layout contains a ScrollView with a LinearLayout as only child. The last item in this LinearLayout is a TableView with a grey gradient as background.
You can try setting layout_height of your items to "fill_parent" and change their sizes via changing layout_weight property, that should work.
If you want the grey part to stick to the bottom you should put weight=1.0 and wrap content for height on the view that is above that one (the white area).
Checked it again on similar layout. The main work does the property android:fillViewport="true" Which
Defines whether the scrollview should stretch its content to fill the viewport
More infos: ScrollView.html#attr_android:fillViewport
How could I proceed to place an item on a LinearLayout, with a given space from the top? For instance, I would like to place the logo on the half of the top middle of the layout.
Thanks
There is no way to add percentages.
You can add two layouts with the same weight to split the screen in two and then add the logo with a centered gravity to the upper layout,
Or you can measure the screen and add the right amount of margins.
Use the paddingTop attribute of the view class.