I would like to have a layout which is similar to
Kinda feel guilty because I recently just asked a question about layouts but I had no idea that I needed to do this(nor did I know it was this hard), I have researched into View Layouts and I've tried use layout.toRightOf etc etc. I have the left/right arrows, I just need to add the up and down buttons
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:game_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/pap.crowslanding"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/flayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_above="#+id/button1"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<pap.crowslanding.GameView
android:id="#+id/game_view"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
game_view:ballDiam="#dimen/ballDiam"
game_view:cellWidth="#dimen/cellWidth"
game_view:pixelHeight="#dimen/pixelHeight"
game_view:pixelWidth="#dimen/pixelWidth" />
<pap.crowslanding.MazeBall
android:id="#+id/mazeball"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:visibility="invisible"
game_view:ballDiam="#dimen/ballDiam"
game_view:cellWidth="#dimen/cellWidth" />
</FrameLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/right" >
</Button>
<Button
android:id="#+id/button2"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/down" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
So essentially, just some insight on how I could add the up and down buttons within the same layout as to avoid layouts drawn onto my activity and overlapping
It seems that all your button images have the same height, so why not just use a TableLayout?
Keep the top-left and top-right cells empty, and in the other cells put your buttons.
Code (ommitting variables):
<TableLayout>
<TableRow>
<View />
<Button>...</Button>
<View />
</TableRow>
<TableRow>
<Button>...</Button>
<Button>...</Button>
<Button>...</Button>
</TableRow>
</TableLayout>
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I have a LinearLayout with a custom button and then another LinearLayout with two TextViews, which is always partly cut off on the edge of the screen. I have tried tons of different combinations of fill_parents, match_parents, and wrap_contents, as well as trying to add layout_weights, but nothing solved it, nor did any answer to any similar questions on this site. Here is my XML code, thanks for any help!
<?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:orientation="horizontal" >
<com.goldtrimdevelopment.sites.google.com.interesthub.SquareButton
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/list_article_like_button"
style="?android:attr/borderlessButtonStyle"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:background="#drawable/custom_like_button"
android:contentDescription="#string/like_button"
android:padding="5dip" />
</com.goldtrimdevelopment.sites.google.com.interesthub.SquareButton>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/article_title"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="3"
android:textSize="16sp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/article_link"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="3"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textSize="12sp" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
I figured from your xml file that you want the layout to be a custom button and to its right 2 textviews which are vertically linear, while the buttons and the textviews are horizontall linear. Try the following values in your layout. I think it must solve the issue.
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" or "wrap content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
and the next linear layout as
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
and for both textviews set
android:layout_width="150dp"
try it and let me know.
I have a Listview where each listview item looks like this!
The ListViewItem is a RelativeLayout. Now I am having problem in creating the two split-screen buttons. Currently I'm doing it like this.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_below="#+id/ReviewText">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="0dp"
android:onClick="likeClicked"
android:clickable="true" >
<!-- SOME CODE -->
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="0dp"
android:onClick="likeClicked"
android:clickable="true" >
<!-- SOME CODE -->
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<RelativeLayout>
This is working perfectly fine, but the android dev documentation here says that
Furthermore, nesting several instances of LinearLayout that use the
layout_weight parameter can be especially expensive as each child
needs to be measured twice. This is particularly important when the
layout is inflated repeatedly, such as when used in a ListView or
GridView.
Can I improve my code for performance. If yes, How? Is there any other way to have two buttons split evenly without using LinearLayout?
In order to minimize layout nesting, so to optimize performances, I'd write a layout (which does take advantage of the layout's relativity) like this one:
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
<View
android:id="#+id/dummy"
android:layout_width="1dp"
android:layout_height="1dp"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:visibility="invisible"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnLeft"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/dummy"
android:onClick="likeClicked"
android:clickable="true"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnRite"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/dummy"
android:onClick="likeClicked"
android:clickable="true"
/>
<RelativeLayout>
I put a dummy View which is aligned to the center, then 2 buttons which I align to the left and to the right side of it.
For a simple layout like your's LinearLayout's are perfect choice. The only thing to be wary about is nesting layout weight's inside a view whose parent already has a layout-weight assigned. This is perfectly ok:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_launcher" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Button" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button2"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button" />
</LinearLayout>
While this is not:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1" > <!-- nesting this way is bad for performance -->
android:text="Button" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Button" />
</Button>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<!-- this is ok -->
<Button
android:id="#+id/button2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<place top item layout here>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:weightSum="2">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="0dp"
android:onClick="likeClicked"
android:clickable="true"
android:layout_weight="1"
>
<!-- SOME CODE -->
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="0dp"
android:onClick="likeClicked"
android:clickable="true" >
<!-- SOME CODE -->
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Hope , The performance can be improved if you follow the listed points
First thins don't use much XML code when you need something dynamically
instead of creating the 2 relative layouts in XML , create a class where it extends Linear layout/Relative layout
add the views which you want to show in the list item to the above layout
Measure the height and width dynamical with in the same class
And make sure the layout is parametrized where you can pass the content dynamically
Finally , you can inflate the created view , Using getview method of an adapter**
Refer the following link
Dynamic listview content loader
How can I split the screen so that the left half of the screen is a Linearlayout and the right half is a Tablelayout.
I've tried applying a layout_weight of 1 to both and a weightSum of 2 to the RelativeLayout wrapper.
Can anyone guide me?
This is what I got so far:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:weightSum="2"
>
<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="#string/hello2" />
</LinearLayout>
<TableLayout
android:id="#+id/Row1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
>
<TableRow>
<Button android:id="#+id/Modus"
android:text="#string/Mode1"
android:background="#layout/modus_button"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
/>
<Button android:id="#+id/Modus"
android:text="#string/Mode2"
android:background="#layout/modus_button"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
/>
</TableRow>
</TableLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
Give an id to your LinearLayout and add android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/your_linear_layout" parameter to your TableLayout. Or you may use another LinearLayout instead of RelativeLayout. If you don't need to add more views LinearLayout could be better.
I have been working on an app for my school recently and wanted to clean it up a bit before possibly publishing it. On the scheduling portion of the app, I have 5 buttons that perform actions on a ListView that is also on the screen at the same time. However, I have the issue when I have around 6 or more events on the screen as once the list view takes over the screen and pushes the buttons off the screen, making it so that I cannot delete the events, make new ones, and so on.
I tried setting the list view to a static size (400px) which worked for normal screen orientation, but if the phone is set to landscape view you cannot see the buttons either. With my current code it would appear to work in the XML viewer but in practice is not the case.
This is the code without the static size setting:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#551A8B"
android:textColor="#FFD700"
>
<Button android:text="#string/New"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/button3">
</Button>
<Button android:text="#string/Edit"
android:id="#+id/button4"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/button3"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/button3">
</Button>
<Button android:text="#string/delete"
android:id="#+id/button5"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/button4"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/button4">
</Button>
<Button android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/button7"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/Previousweek"
android:layout_below="#id/button3">
</Button>
<Button android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/button6"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/Next"
android:layout_below = "#id/button3"
android:layout_toRightOf = "#id/button7">
</Button>
<ListView android:id="#+id/listView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:textColor="#FFD700"
android:layout_below="#id/button7"
android:textSize="10sp" >
</ListView>
</RelativeLayout>
The XML viewer for this code is:
Which would lead me to believe it would work fine. I tested it on my emulator and got the following result after entering a bunch of silly events however:
This result is consistent with multiple versions of the emulator.
How I can fix this problem without using static size constraints that cause landscape orientation issues?
Separate the buttons into a separate RelativeLayout and enclose this and the ListView in a vertical LinearLayout.
Then:
<LinearLayout android:id="#+id/linearLayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<RelativeLayout [...]
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<!-- Your buttons -->
</RelativeLayout>
<ListView android:id="#+id/listView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dip"
android:layout_weight="1" />
</LinearLayout
The key point here is the height and weight on the ListView. This means that it fills the remaining space in the LinearLayout after space has been correctly allocated for the buttons.
Add a android:weigth in your listView tag and set the android:weigth value to 1. This will work when your list view height and width is set to fill_parent and your list view is covering entire layout. So try it, it will work.
One simple solution would be to separate the buttons in their own relative layout and put the whole thing in a linear layout, eg:
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#551A8B"
android:textColor="#FFD700">
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#551A8B"
android:textColor="#FFD700">
<!-- your buttons -->
</RelativeLayout>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:textColor="#FFD700"
android:layout_below="#id/button7"
android:textSize="10sp">
</ListView>
</LinearLayout>
Use a vertical LinearLayout with two rows of Buttons (each row as a LinearLayout), then give the ListView a layout_weight value of "1". In fact, use layout_weight to clean up the size of your buttons too.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<Button android:text="#string/New"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:id="#+id/button3" />
<Button android:text="#string/Edit"
android:id="#+id/button4"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1" />
<Button android:text="#string/Delete"
android:id="#+id/button5"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<Button android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/button7"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/Previousweek" />
<Button android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/button6"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/Next" />
</LinearLayout>
<ListView android:id="#+id/listView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:textColor="#FFD700"
android:textSize="10sp" >
</ListView>
I'm just beginning Android and have gotten myself stuck. I've made a simple app/view. The idea is draw a line-maze in the top, with motion buttons on the bottom. My app only draws an x with a couple lines in the frame, but that works. The problem is that my buttons are being drawn too far down, and are clipped in height.
I assume the problem is all in my layout xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1" >
<none.maze.MazeView
android:id="#+id/maze"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
/>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text"
android:text="#string/maze_layout_text_text"
android:visibility="visible"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:textColor="#ff8888ff"
android:textSize="24sp"/>
</RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/left"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Left"
android:layout_weight="1"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/forward"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Forward"
android:layout_weight="1"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/right"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Right"
android:layout_weight="1"
/>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
I think you shouldn't use layout_height="fill_parent" and layout_weight at the same time. Try to set layout_height="0dip" and layout_weight="1" for the FrameLayout and layout_height="wrap_content" for the lower LinearLayout. The lower LinearLayout mustn't have the layout_weight attribute.
Use Hierarchy Viewer to debug your layout. Its pretty cool.
Your entire layout is just way too bloated and ineffective. You use way too many ViewGroups. I recommend reading about RelativeLayouts and especially the entire Layout Tricks series.