I am displaying a textview(I intend this to fill the entire screen excluding the button below it) and a button(small one at the bottom) in an activity. I want textview to be placed aove the button. I don't want to hardcode any height/width.
Hence
For button I have kept height ad width as word_wrap
For textview I have kept width as fill parent.
What I want to know is that, is there anyway by whcih I can specify textview height to be screenheight-button height. I want to this in xml file but not dnamically inside my code.
To achieve this you have to create something like 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" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_above="#+id/button1"
android:text="TextView" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:text="Button" />
</RelativeLayout>
and you have a textview which will stay above your button and will fit the entire screen.
Use RelativeLayout, set textview's dimensions as fill_parent, then place button below it,
set button's android:layout_below="#+id/textview" and button's dimensions as wrap_content.
Check the result in visual designer or in device, it should work
You can use layout_weight attribute
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dip"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="TextView" />
<Button
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button" />
</LinearLayout>
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I have a linear layout inside a relative layout, and I want to make the buttons 'taller' to fit the height of the linear layout.
I tried adding padding, as you can see in the screenshot, the layout is 'taller' but the buttons are not. I tried 'fill_parent', 'match_parent' but it didn't make a difference. How do I make the buttons expand in height?
<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"
android:id="#+id/timerLayout">
<Chronometer
android:id="#+id/chronometer1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="48dp"
android:text="#string/chronometer"
android:textSize="50sp" />
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/buttonLayout"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:paddingLeft="4.0dp"
android:paddingTop="50.0dp"
android:paddingRight="4.0dp"
android:paddingBottom="4.0dp"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnReset"
android:layout_width="0.0dp"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/ic_restore_white_24dp"
android:drawableStart="#drawable/ic_restore_white_24dp"
android:text="#string/pause_btn"
android:layout_weight="1.5" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnStart"
android:layout_width="0.0dp"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="#string/start_btn"
android:drawableLeft="#android:drawable/ic_media_play"
android:drawableStart="#android:drawable/ic_media_play"
android:layout_weight="1.5" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnSave"
android:layout_width="0.0dp"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="#string/save_btn"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/ic_save_white_24dp"
android:drawableStart="#drawable/ic_save_white_24dp"
android:layout_weight="1.0" />
</LinearLayout>
The extra space you are seeing is from the padding values in your linear layout, and your buttons are already filling the parent linear layout. But your linear layout has specified the following.
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
If you want to see buttons with a larger height, change the height value for your linear layout to something else like:
android:layout_height="300dp"
your linearlayout says height:wrap_content
so the child elements will takeup only as much space as specified.
Try giving either minHeight for linearlayout or simply remove linearlayout and in your buttons specifiy "alignparentbottom = true".
For left-most button give alignparentStart = true.
Take a look at your xml layout file very closely
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/buttonLayout"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:paddingLeft="4.0dp"
android:paddingTop="50.0dp" //this guy
android:paddingRight="4.0dp"
android:paddingBottom="4.0dp"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
the android:paddingTop is the space on the top of every child in your LinearLayout so if you remove it the buttons will fit.
Hi I have found weird behaviour when trying to implement the following layout on android.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0.25"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0.75"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:paddingRight="15dp"
android:paddingTop="10dp"
android:paddingBottom="10dp"
android:layout_margin="20dp"
android:textColor="#android:color/black"
android:lineSpacingMultiplier="1.1" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
This piece of layout is supposed to generate a textview on the right that takes up 75% of the screen. But for some reason the height of the Textview is calculated as if the weight of its parent is 0. The text inside the view seems to wrap perfectly, but not the view itself.
Is this normal behaviour or how can I get the textview to display the correct height?
Firstly please indent your code properly so it is easy to read. You can do that automagically in the XML editor by pressing Ctrl + Shift + F.
Secondly if you want the LinearLayouts to be 25% wide and 75% wide but fill the whole height of the screen then you need
android:layout_height="match_parent"
Thirdly, if you want the TextView to take up 75% of the screen, then why not just assign the weight directly to that and not have it wrapped in another LinearLayout?
Lastly, with weights you dont need to make the children weights add to 1. Having
android:layout_weight="1"
and
android:layout_weight="3"
is also ok.
I have the following XML layout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/mainLayout"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|center_vertical">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/IVLEFT"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:background="#ff0000"
android:padding="1dp"
/>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/IVRIGHT"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/IVLEFT"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/IVLEFT"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/IVLEFT"
android:src="#drawable/shadow_pages"
android:background="#00ff00"
android:padding="1dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
I would expect my layout to have 2 ImageViews - one to the left, one to the right.
But what actually happens is:
During runtime I set IVLEFT's image to a large image (say 1024X768) - and it covers all of my layout, abandoning IVRIGHT (I cant even see it)
Any ideas?
It is because your RelativeLayout is wrap_content in width. it takes all the space it needs even if it is outside the screen.
Use fill_parent instead.
Its because you have given first ImageView width and height to fill_parent. So it will acquire the whole layout. Then also, your layout depends on your first image, because if you give a large image to the first Imageview, it will take the whole layout.
If you want to show 2 images side by side, try using linearlayout with layout_weights to two imageViews.
Also give your RelativeLayout width and height to fill_parent
Change the RelativeLayout width to fill_parent
There is no ImageView with the id = "#+id/magazineImageView" in your xml, if you mean "#+id/IVLEFT", then the 1st image itself is occupying the whole Screen width, hence you cannot see the 2nd image.
If you want to see the 2nd image make both the ImageView width as wrap_content or some hard coded value
More importantly when you are using any View id as a reference dont use + sign in the id. + sign is used to define an id for a view, for the first time
use:
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/magazineImageView"
Try this::
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/mainLayout"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|center_vertical">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/IVLEFT"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:background="#ff0000"
android:padding="1dp"
android:src="#drawable/ic_launcher"/>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/IVRIGHT"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/IVLEFT"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/IVLEFT"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/IVLEFT"
android:src="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:background="#00ff00"
android:padding="1dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
I have an ImageView and TextView. I want to place the TextView below the image view but with the middle of the TextView aligned with the middle of the ImageView (along the horizontal axis). If the text in the TextView changes to something much larger or smaller, the middle of the text always needs to remain aligned with the middle of the ImageView. Is this possible in xml?
Yes, you are simply looking to contain both elements in a vertical LinearLayout which has android:gravity set to center_horizontal.
Something like this:
<?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:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:orientation="vertical"
... >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
... />
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
... />
</LinearLayout>
Because the TextView's width is wrap_content, setting its gravity shouldn't be necessary. I would do it just for safety (and additionally, I may set the width to match_parent as well).
You can make use of RealtiveLayout as follows..
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:orientation="vertical"
... >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
... />
<TextView
android:layout_below="#+id/imageView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
If you want your textview to be of single line only then add following properties to TextView
android:ellipsezed="end"
android:singleLine="true"
Use a given layout and add it to any of your existing layout you get result what your looking for ..
Hope this explanation works for you..
set TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent" and set android:gravity="center" in TextView.
I think it help you.
Thanks
I'm trying to create an expandable list where I can make the height of the group_row smaller, to use less screen space. When I change the layout_height of the LinearLayout, it changes the height to what I want it, but all of the labels of each TextView aren't displayed; they disappear. However, when it is wrap_content, the text appears. Any ideas how to fix?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="35dp">
<TextView android:id="#+id/childname
android:paddingLeft="0dp"
android:textSize="16dp"
android:textStyle="italic"
android:layout_width="150dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
</TextView>
</LinearLayout>
Textview id should be android:id="#+id/childname"