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Can android padding be made to be not clickable?

EDIT: Answer found through Emil's comments. Code ended up like this:
FrameLayout.LayoutParams params = new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(
FrameLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
FrameLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
params.setMargins(left, top, right, bottom);
view.setLayoutParams(params);
Thanks all :D
I'm currently writing an Android application and I have a dynamically created tree which displays ImageView elements within it. However, to arrange these images I've used padding left to line them up correctly, dynamically changing how the padding is calculated so that everything turns out evenly. However when I do this, the padding covers up some of the images to the left, and even though you can see the images behind this padding, when you click on that image, it will evaluate the image who's padding is being used (the furthest left element). I'm basically wondering if there is a way to programatically set something that does what padding does to images but isn't clickable? Margins would make sense, but you cannot set margins on ImageViews.
The tree set up is like this:
-----A-----
--B--C--D--
-E-F----G--
Imagine every letter is an ImageView, dynamically placed with padding. But if I click on B or C, D's code will be evaluated because it's left padding covers B and C. The same goes for E or F, click those, and G will be evaluated. I cannot figure out a different way to place these ImageViews. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Consider replacing your padding with layout_margin property. that way the area that separates the padded view is not considered as part of the view but ratter as part of the layout it sits in.
So use
android:layout_margin="10dp"
or:
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
for your needs.

how to set a button layout_marginTop/layout_marginBottom in runtime?

I am using a relative layout with 4 buttons (in the center, one below the other).
My problem is to adjust the gap between all buttons so it will be the same between all buttons.
I want to do it dynamically according to the height of the screen (i use Display class to get the actual height).
what is the best way to do it?
Thanks,
Amigal

You can do this via modifying the LayoutParams of your View
Button b;// your button
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lp=(RelativeLayout.LayoutParams)b.getLayoutParams();
lp.leftMargin=10;//your left margin here
lp.topMargin=10;//your top margin here and do this for other 2 margins if you need to
sometimes you need to call
b.setLayoutParams(lp);
to have the changes applied
also i dont know how you get the screen dimensions, but this works at every API:
DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);

Positioning items relative to the ActionBar in Android

I used to have an Activity that would use no ActionBar. The layout is a RelativeLayout with width and height simply matching the parent. It allowed users to drag around buttons using parts of this code in the onTouch event:
MarginLayoutParams marginParams = new MarginLayoutParams(v.getLayoutParams());
int left = (int) event.getRawX() - (v.getWidth() / 2);
int top = (int) event.getRawY() - (v.getHeight());
marginParams.setMargins(left, top, 0, 0);
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams layoutParams = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(marginParams);
v.setLayoutParams(layoutParams);
All dandy—the button moves just below the finger and is placed correctly at the position on screen. Now, however, I enabled the ActionBar, and suddenly when clicked, the button moves ~30 pixels below the finger. To illustrate this behavior, here's what I used to have (on the left) and what happens right now (on the right):
I assume this is because the ActionBar now displaces everything by its own height. Of course, I do not want this to happen, or at least correct this, so:
How can I shift the placement in setMargins() according to the actual size of the ActionBar without using a hardcoded value?
How can I prevent the ActionBar from shifting everything in the first place? Put differently, how can I ensure my button is placed relative to the ActionBar's bottom line and directly where the finger points?
This is what I want:

(I used an approach is my code and it works. I am going to tell you the same here)
I think setMargin() is not such a clever thing to use here. Instead you can use setX() and setY() methods.
Whenever one switches over from a full screen activity to the one with Action Bar, one runs into such problem.
You will need to adjust for the Action Bar height. Instead of using getLayoutParams(), use getLocationInWindow() or getLocationOnScreen(). Since getRawX() and getRawY() work with screen positions of the view, these APIs should be used.

How to add custom view at particular point in relative layout in android?

Hi am developing android application with graph view. i got an open source graph application to show my values with graph lines. Here i am face problem while adding view. i am not able to add my custom view properly with relative layout.
Here i attached my custom view alignment .
In that image point 1. is my result while trying to add mt custom view.
But i need to add that as shown in 2. part.
my custom view is like shown in 3 .part
I am getting that line starting x,y and ending x,y values. I tried with that values but i got result as 2 part. Please provide me any suggestion
Or let me know is there any alignments required.
My code is like
View View v1=infalter.inflate(R.layout.bullet, null);
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams rl=new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
rl.setMargins(myX,myY, 0, 0);
mRelative.addView(v1,rl);

You are setting the margins for the x, y point that you got, so the view will start at x, y at the top left, which is what you got. You want to align the bottom center of the view, so you need to calculate this.
So:
top= y - viewHeight
left= x - viewWidht/2

I don't know what your values of myX and myY are, but it looks like you're trying to align the top right with your x and y margins applied to the right and top respectively. If this is indeed the case, you're probably better off with something like this:
rl.setMargins(0, 0, myX, myY);
rl.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_RIGHT);
The arguments to setMargins go in order as follows: left, top, right, bottom. If your myX value is the right margin and you want the object right aligned, the code above will specify these two preferences.

While playing with a relative layout to provide a help screen overlay I ran into weird things and had to set margins relative to the bottom right and not upper left. So I had a rule to align the view at the bottom and the right + the margins.
Maybe that will help.

Shift layout down by using paddingTop and device Height

I have a layout which I want to slide down, but not entirely so you can still see a "scroll back up" text. So how I want to do this:
get the dimensions of the device. Put paddingTop = screenHeight - 7dp (for the text). Is this possible? I've tried with layoutparams too but then everything in the layout resized, including the "scroll back up" text.
What is the best way of doing this?

You could use Animation to accomplish this task.
A working example using animation with ViewFlipper can be found here.