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LinearLayout above ImageView not getting displayin Fragment?

I have ImageView which needs to be shown in full height available. However at top i have created LinearLayout which contains Text and Image. I want it to display at top but also want to image to fit screen. I have linear layout at bottom and its working fine.
This is my code for LinearLayout which i want to show at top. I have hidden actionbar
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/actionbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="top"
android:background="#android:color/black"
android:gravity="top"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:visibility="visible" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/backbutton"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="left"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:src="#drawable/back_button" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/titleofscreen"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:text="Testing"
android:textColor="#22c064"
android:textSize="18sp" />
</LinearLayout>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageShown"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:scaleType="fitXY" />
</FrameLayout>
If i dont set imageView scale type to android:scaleType="fitXY" then it works but image doesnt fit screen.
I want to display image to fit between above bar which contains Text and below it has some icons. But if i make image scaletype ='fitXY' it doesnt display above text. Following is screenshot but i want image to occupy space

If you want the image to be below the actionbar you should not use the FrameLayout as a parent. You either should use vertical LinearLayout with weight or `RelativeLayout". Try following code:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/actionbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="top"
android:background="#android:color/black"
android:gravity="top"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:visibility="visible" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/backbutton"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="left"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:src="#drawable/back_button" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/titleofscreen"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:text="Testing"
android:textColor="#22c064"
android:textSize="18sp" />
</LinearLayout>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageShown"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_below="#+id/actionbar"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:scaleType="fitCenter"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
Also I doubt that you use fitXY as android:scaleType, because it doesn't maintain the aspect ratio of the image - so your image will be deformed (stretched). In your case you should rather use fitCenter, but it depends on how exactly you want to scale your image - you can also play with centerInside or centerCrop.

RelativeLayout in a LinearLayout won't wrap content correctly

I'm trying to make a simple clock/stopwatch app. In my overall vertical linear layout, I have a relative layout followed by a button. The relative layout has several imageviews stacked on each other in order to produce the clock.
I noticed, however, that the relative layout, as well as the imageviews themselves, take up way too much space in the linear layout. The clock pieces are SQUARE, so why is Eclipse insisting that it is a long vertical rectangle? My button at the bottom doesn't even show if I don't use weights. (But strangely enough, it shows if it is above the relative layout.)
I've tried everything I could: Set the height of items in relative layout to wrap_content, as well as the relative layout itself. I tried using weights, by giving the relativelayout a weight of 0 and the button 1, and then setting their layout_heights respectively to 0dp as needed. Still no go. There is a lot of room left for other things, and I'd like for the clock's parent layout to wrap itself around just the content.
What is going on here? Please see attached image for details. Code is attached below.
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#drawable/tiling_rules"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
tools:ignore="ContentDescription" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/clock" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/hour" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/min" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/sec" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/bell" />
</RelativeLayout>
<Button
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dip"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Test" />

It turns out that all I needed was to add:
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
to every ImageView! Now the clock pieces' bounds are "wrapped" around the content, even though setting wrap_content in its layout didn't work. Thanks for the suggestions though!

Try using a RelativeLayout as your main layout. This way you can make the button show at the bottom of the screen. Then if you need, use a separate layout for the clock pieces within the main layout
Kinda like this
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:ignore="ContentDescription" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/clock" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/hour" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/min" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/sec" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/bell" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:text="Button" />

Top and bottom images overlay on imageview Issue

I want to make my layout like this as per below picture. this image i am able to see in iphone devices.
Here i used frame layout to achieve make overlays of top and bottom image bar on imageview but after using frame layout i can only able to see top imagebar overlay not bottom image bar? why its happens?
Forgot about the content of top and bottom iamge bar.. i am focusing to achieve this functionality.
Please make me correct if i am wrong in my code.
xml file code :
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<include
android:id="#+id/top_bar"
layout="#layout/item_below_image_bar"
android:gravity="top" />
<it.sephiroth.android.library.imagezoom.ImageViewTouch
android:id="#+id/image"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:contentDescription="#string/descr_image"
android:scaleType="fitXY" />
<include
android:id="#+id/below_bar"
layout="#layout/item_below_image_bar"
android:gravity="bottom" />
</FrameLayout>

per android documentation
Child views are drawn in a stack, with the most recently added child on top.
so you need to arrange your layout as follows
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<it.sephiroth.android.library.imagezoom.ImageViewTouch
android:id="#+id/image"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:contentDescription="#string/descr_image"
android:scaleType="fitXY" />
<include
android:id="#+id/top_bar"
layout="#layout/item_below_image_bar"
android:gravity="top" />
<include
android:id="#+id/below_bar"
layout="#layout/item_below_image_bar"
android:gravity="bottom" />
</FrameLayout>
in this case the actual location of the view is not determined by the order that the views are declared in the xml. For a linear layout this would be true however not so with the FrameLayout, in a framelayout the location is determined by gravity so your views will still be placed in the correct locations and they will be loaded in order they were declared, so first is the image view, then the first include is placed on top of that, then the second include is placed on top of that (however in this case they dont intersect so it doesn't matter).
edit2: after chatting with sam we were able to figure out the problem here's our solution
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:id="#+id/greenImage"
android:src="#2dff3d"/>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="14dp"
android:layout_marginRight="14dp"
>
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="My Label"
android:id="#+id/textView"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:layout_marginLeft="14dp"
android:layout_marginRight="14dp">
<Button
android:id="#+id/button2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="My Label"
android:id="#+id/textView1"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>
note the usage of layout_gravity as apposed to just gravity.

Android: Align Parent Bottom + Bottom margin

I've used a relative layout and I want to set the button at bottom of the screen, However this puts it all the down to the bottom and I would like to have some margin so it there's some space between the end of the screen/view and the button. However whatever I do the button margin just doesn't do anything on 2.1+ for some reason. The relative layout contains a background so I cant but the margin on that.
Anyone know a fix for 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="match_parent"
android:layout_marginBottom="0dp"
android:background="#drawable/background" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/confirm_mobile_button_next"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="40dip"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="false"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="false"
android:layout_centerInParent="false"
android:layout_margin="15dp"
android:background="#drawable/button_shape_selector"
android:paddingLeft="10dip"
android:paddingRight="10dip"
android:text="#string/confirm_mobile_no_continue"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:textStyle="bold" />
</RelativeLayout>

You can simply add a padding to the RelativeLayout instead of a margin to the Button, e.g. android:paddingBottom="15dp".
In general I'm always testing my layout in the Exclipse preview using API Level 8 setting. This gives quite accurate results for most devices, including ICS and JB.

The other thing you can do is put a View that's aligned to the bottom of the RelativeLayout, and set its height to the bottom margin you would want to use (or simply specify a value for layout_marginBottom) like so:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:src="#drawable/some_image"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Some Overlay"
android:padding="3dip"
android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
android:layout_above="#+id/empty_view"
android:layout_marginBottom="35dip"
/>
<View
android:id = "#+id/empty_view"
android:layout_height = "30dip"
android:layout_width = "match_parent"
android:visibility="invisible"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
This example fills the RelativeLayout with the ImageView, and positions a TextView over the ImageView.

Yu can use translateY attribute
translateY="-16dp"
Final code
<?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:layout_marginBottom="0dp"
android:background="#drawable/background">
<Button
android:id="#+id/confirm_mobile_button_next"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="40dip"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="false"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="false"
android:layout_centerInParent="false"
android:layout_margin="15dp"
android:background="#drawable/button_shape_selector"
android:paddingLeft="10dip"
android:paddingRight="10dip"
android:text="#string/confirm_mobile_no_continue"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:translateY="-16dp" />
</RelativeLayout>

only working solution suggested by #franny zhao is below.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/fl_layout"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_layout"
android:text="hello world"
android:layout_marginBottom="50dp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</FrameLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
If you add padding to the bottom aligned view as suggested by others, the view background will also extend. If you have colored background then the view will look like it is glued to the bottom. Padding and margin are entirely different, padding is part of view, but margin leaves space between views.

I think the best way is to set android:layout_alignParentBottom in XML
then in java code behind:
Button confirm_mobile_button_next = (Button)findViewById(R.id.confirm_mobile_button_next)
and
confirm_mobile_button_next.setTransitionY(-THE_VALUE) or setTransitionX(-THE_VALUE)

I think the best way is to set:
<...
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" />
then in java code behind:
Button confirm_mobile_button_next = (Button)findViewById(R.id.confirm_mobile_button_next)
confirm_mobile_button_next.setTransitionY(-THE_VALUE) or setTransitionX(-THE_VALUE)

You can use a ViewGroup(for example, FrameLayout or LinearLayout) to wrap the view. Set alignParentBottom in the outside ViewGroup, then marginBottom can work in the inside View.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/fl_layout"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_layout"
android:text="hello world"
android:layout_marginBottom="50dp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</FrameLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

Since I stumbled upon this issue, and saw no answers fit to my situation I started thinking for half a second and resolved it by setting a negative margin on the view inside the RelativeLayout sample:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="48dp"
android:layout_height="48dp"
android:layout_marginTop="-8dp"
android:layout_marginStart="-8dp">
</RelativeLayout>
This should prove useful to some people.

Well this is 2022, but if you still are not using ConstraintLayout for some reason, like the one legacy project code I am fixing, use this property for a Bottom margin type visual.
android:translationY="-8dp"
and your code should look like this (in my case this a FAB in Relative Layout)
<com.google.android.material.floatingactionbutton.ExtendedFloatingActionButton
android:id="#+id/cart_check_out_btn"
style="#style/FABThemeDark"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_marginHorizontal="16dp"
android:layout_marginVertical="16dp"
android:text="#string/cart_check_out_btn"
android:textAllCaps="false"
android:translationY="-8dp" />
And it will work like this

Try in this way :
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="17dp"
android:text="Button" />

Here is another alternative. If you want to set the child's margin instead of parent's padding, you should set the value of android:layout_marginTop to double of the desired margin and then set the android:layout_centerVertical to true. Top margin is given double the desired value to compensate the bottom margin. That way you will have an equal top and bottom margin around the child view.
<Button
android:id="#+id/confirm_mobile_button_next"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="40dip"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="false"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_centerInParent="false"
android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
android:layout_marginRight="15dp"
android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
android:background="#drawable/button_shape_selector"
android:paddingLeft="10dip"
android:paddingRight="10dip"
android:text="#string/confirm_mobile_no_continue"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:textStyle="bold" />
It will give you the same result.

RelativeLayout - CenterInParent and marginTop

I has the following XML:
<RelativeLayout android:id="#+id/cover_box"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<ImageView android:id="#+id/cover"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<ImageView android:id="#+id/download" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="#drawable/mark_download"
android:layout_centerInParent="true" android:layout_marginTop="90px" />
</RelativeLayout>
But it's look's like the marginTop is being ignored.

If you want the 2nd image to be 90dp under the center of the screen, you could replace it with a FrameLayout where you can control the padding to move your image downwards.
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:paddingTop="90dp">
<ImageView android:id="#+id/download"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/mark_download"/>
</FrameLayout>

When you use center in parent the view is put directly in the center. The margin top will only come into play if an object is within 90px of the top of your view. Thus pushing the centered view down to keep at least 90px of space on top of it. So it isn't being ignored but it is not having the effect that you think it should have.

I want the progressbar to shown under android:layout_centerInParent="true" so i have added a dummy TextView and set it to centerInParent .Then i put my progressbar under it. Now you can increase its distance from center in two ways . First by increasing marginTop in TextView and second increasing TextView height.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/widget"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#drawable/splash" >
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/splash_container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txt1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true" />
<com.s3.tdd.interfaces.CircularProgressBar
android:id="#+id/circularprogressbar2"
style="#style/Widget.ProgressBar.Holo.CircularProgressBar"
android:layout_width="110dip"
android:layout_height="110dip"
android:layout_below="#+id/txt1"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
</RelativeLayout>

You can put your imageview inside of other ViewGroup (LinearLayout of RelativeLayout layout), leaving the margin of imageview, and doing android:centerInParent="true" for the ViewGroup:
<RelativeLayout 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">
<LinearLayout android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:centerInParent="true">
<ImageView android:id="#+id/download" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="#drawable/mark_download" android:layout_marginTop="90px" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

You can make a dummy view and center it to parent. Now align your view relative to dummy view using layout:alignComponent and give the marginTop. Now in the code move it according to the width of your view to center it.