In my layout, I need a header, a list-view, and a footer with a TextView. The TextView needs to be resizable to up to 5 lines. Think facebook chat, where you have the blue header with the name of your friend, the middle content pane, and a text box down below, that grows as you type stuff in:
[header] a fragment that takes up about 50dp
[content]
[content]
[content]
[content] something like a ViewGroup with a ListView in it
[content]
[content]
[content]
[footer] a ViewGroup that contains an EditText and Buttons
I've tried all sorts of different layout settings, but can't get it right. Either the footer takes up all the space, or the content covers the footer.
Here's what I have so far:
<LinearLayout ...>
<!-- Slot to put Header fragment in -->
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/header"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
<!-- Here's where the content goes. This is supposed to be a ListView
inserted as a fragment -->
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/content"
... />
<include
android:id="#+id/footer"
... />
</LinearLayout>
I left out the layout_width and layout_height values empty, because I don't know what to set them to.
UPDATES
Initially, I thought the problem was because my EditText was set to maxLines=5 and TextMultiline, but I tried removing everything but one button with a hardcoded height, and the insert still covered everything. I also tried setting <footer below="content"> but then content just covered footer
The problem was that the footer layout included is another RelativeLayout. The footer layout contains elements that set layout_alignParentBottom="true", which made the footer layout take up the entire screen. I have no idea why it would do that, but that's what happens.
For creating a UI like this create a layout
header.xml
<?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="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingLeft="5dp"
android:text="xyz"
android:textSize="10dp" />
</LinearLayout>
for footer:
footer.xml
<?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="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<EditText
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingLeft="5dp"
android:text="xyz"
android:textSize="10dp" />
</LinearLayout>
Create another layout that will contain listView as you said :
main.xml
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical" >
**<include layout="#layout/header.xml" android:layout_alignParentTop="true"/>**
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:clickable="true"
>
</ListView>
**<include layout="#layout/footer.xml" android:layout_below="#+id/listview" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"/>**
</RelativeLayout>
check this...I hope it helps. At the moment I have defined an array.xml in Values folder with some empty entries for ListView. You will have to handle it with code.
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="HEADER" />
<ListView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:entries="#array/chats"
android:layout_weight="1">
</ListView>
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:lines="5"
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
android:hint=" Please enter your Chat" />
</LinearLayout>
Related
Because of the design of the app, I need to do the following:
(I reduced the problem as much as possible - and searched in other answers, but havent found my problem exactly)
As you can see in the picture, I have following components:
Listview
GreenDivider with a fixed size of 1dp
Button-Area
The Listview is on top, the button-area in the bottom and the divider between them. The Listview is variable in its size.
Following is the difficult part:
The divider has always be visible.
The divider has always to be above the button-area. If the listview does not use the entire available space, the divider has to be exactly below the listview. If the Listview uses more space than available, the divider has to be exactly above the button-area. And of course, the listview should be scrollable.
I tried a long time with relative layout and also with weight in linearlayout. If you got a solution, please share your idea with me.
The following is the part of the layout, but it actually does not work as expected:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<ListView
android:id="#+id/notification_action_listview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/navigation_item_background_selector"
android:divider="#null"
android:dividerHeight="0dp"
android:orientation="vertical" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/divider_layout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="1dp" >
<include
android:id="#+id/divider"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="1dp"
layout="#layout/divider_horizontal_green" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/footer"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center|bottom"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/notification_action_remove_button"
style="#style/flat_button_red_rounded"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="#dimen/margin_big"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/margin_big"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/margin_big"
android:text="#string/delete_account" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Use a relative layout as your top level. set the footer to alignBottom, and the LinearLayout that contains the Listview and the separator to layout_above="#id/footer". I have edited your xml to solve your problem (I think its properly formed but SO isn't the best editor).
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_above="#id/footer">
<ListView
android:id="#+id/notification_action_listview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/navigation_item_background_selector"
android:divider="#null"
android:dividerHeight="0dp"
android:orientation="vertical" />
<include
android:id="#+id/divider"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="1dp"
layout="#layout/divider_horizontal_green" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/footer"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="true"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/notification_action_remove_button"
style="#style/flat_button_red_rounded"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="#dimen/margin_big"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/margin_big"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/margin_big"
android:text="#string/delete_account" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
I would declare two dividers and give them each an id.
Then, programatically, I would check the size of the list view against the size of its container.
If the listview is bigger than the container I would make the divider parked above the buttons "visible" and the one below the listview "gone"
etc...
Truthfully, I'd probably just align it above the buttons and call it a day.
I have a layout like this:
<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="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/action_bar_default_height"
android:layout_marginTop="25dp"
android:background="#drawable/gradient"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<ImageButton ... />
<TextView ... />
<View
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1" />
<ImageView ... />
<ImageButton ... />
<ImageButton ... />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<!-- All extra views are inflated here, if needed -->
</LinearLayout>
<!-- Main view -->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" />
<!-- HERE I WANT TO PUT A FOOTER -->
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/FOOTER"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<!-- footer.xml WILL BE INFLATED HERE -->
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
The footer is another .xml file (footer.xml) that will be inflated in the FOOTER LinearLayout.
I tried to change FOOTER to RelativeLayout and add android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" to the footer.xml LinearLayout, but it did not work.
footer.xml
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
...
</LinearLayout>
Any ideas?
Since all of your LinearLayout in you XML are "wrap_content", you need to set the weight of one of them to be "1" so that guy will actually takes all the possible space. I would give it to the "Main View". basically you should add android:layout_weight="1" to it.
Changing footer to relativelayout won't work. those "relative parent bottom" stuff works if the PARENT is relative layout. not the child.
Try adding
android:layout_weight="1"
To the LinearLayout you want to take up all of the extra vertical space (I assume this would be the one under your Main view comment?)
That will force the footer linear layout to the bottom of its parent.
Also, you may want to consider just using an include tag for your footer.xml layout instead of placing it as a child of your LinearLayout with id FOOTER.
So you should be able to remove the LinearLayout with id FOOTER altogether and replace it with an include tag.
Something like:
<include android:id="#+id/FOOTER" layout="#layout/footer" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
I can't see any reason why changing the patent layout to relative wouldn't work. Try removing all of the XML except the footer and see if it works. Then add it back in bit by but
I want to implement this: A ScrollView that contains many elements (ImageViews, TextViews, EditTexts etc) and then after the ScrollView some buttons (which are custom ImageViews) that appear always exactly at the bottom of the screen.
If I use the android:fillViewport="true" attribute, then if the elements of the ScrollView are too big to fit in the screen size the buttons get invisible . If I use the android:Weight=1 attribute then the ScrollView gets only 50% of the Screen when the screen is big and it can fit (I want the buttons to take a small percentage, about 10%). If I set the android:Weight to bigger values then the buttons appear very small.
Please help! Maybe it is something simple that I overlooked but I’ve been banging my head for hours!
Just created and tested it. Looks like you want.
<?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">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/buttons"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Custom Button1"/>
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Custom Button2"/>
</LinearLayout>
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_above="#id/buttons">
<!--Scrollable content here-->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="test text"
android:textSize="40dp"/>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</RelativeLayout>
<?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="vertical">
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Hello World"
/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Hallo Welt"
/>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0">
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Go next page"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
This worked for me. Give the scroll view a weight of 1. Put all the other widgets following the scroll view in a layout. The scroll view will grow enough to not block the rest.
Widgets in scroll view and rest at bottom
scrollview cannot fit the screen because you put it on a linear layout, so linear layout fit in the screen,
just try to make scrollview as root elemen on xml layout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/scrollView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/linearLayout1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<!-- Here you can put some XML stuff and BOOM! your screen fit to scrollview -->
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
If you do not want to use RelativeLayout, it is better to use LinearLayout. This method is better in my opinion.
Just set the layout_weight to one
I'm trying to put a ProgressBar view below a ListView for a ListActivity. I want it to be always below the last row in the listView.
The ProgressBar, which is placed in a LinearLayout, does appear, as long as the list (which is filled by an adapter at runtime) is not exceeding the screen. As soon as the list is larger than the screen, the ProgressBar is no longer visible.
The layout xml looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/db1_root"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<!-- Title bar -->
<LinearLayout
style="#style/TitleBar" >
<TextView
style="#style/TitleBarText"
android:text="Some title text" />
<ImageButton
style="#style/TitleBarAction"
android:contentDescription="#string/description_search"
android:src="#drawable/title_search" />
</LinearLayout>
<!-- Content -->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" >
<ListView
android:divider="#drawable/category_item_divider"
android:dividerHeight="#dimen/list_divider_height"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/android:list"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/android:empty"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="#string/category_no_items" />
</LinearLayout>
<!-- Progress bar -->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" >
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/productlist_progressbar"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Is this not possible with a LinearLayout? Any help appreciated.
You should add a footer using :
list.addFooterView(footerView);
or doing it manually, but then consider using relative layouts, there are far more powerfull than linear layouts. And then place your footer below the list, or better, place your list and your empty view above your footerview.
I want to have a button at the bottom of the listview.
If I use relativeLayout/FrameLayout, it aligns but listView goes down to very botton.
(Behind the button at the bottom)
FrameLayout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listview"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnButton"
android:text="Hello"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom" />
</FrameLayout>
</FrameLayout>
RelativeLayout:
<?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">
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listview"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
/>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnButton"
android:text="Hello"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom" />
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
Above two codes only work like the first image. What I want is second image.
Can anybody help?
Thank you.
A FrameLayouts purpose is to overlay things on top of each other. This is not what you want.
In your RelativeLayout example you set the ListViews height and width to MATCH_PARENT this is going to make it take up the same amount of space as its parent, and thus take up all of the space on the page (and covers the button).
Try something like:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<ListView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dip"
android:layout_weight="1"/>
<Button
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0"/>
</LinearLayout>
The layout_weight dictates how the extra space is to be used. The Button does not want to stretch beyond the space it requires, so it has a weight of 0. The ListView wants to take up all of the extra space, so it has a weight of 1.
You could accomplish something similar using a RelativeLayout, but if it is just these two items then I think a LinearLayout is simpler.
<?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"
android:background="#ffffff"
>
<ListView android:id="#+id/ListView01"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1">
</ListView>
<FrameLayout android:id="#+id/FrameLayout01"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<Button android:id="#+id/Button01"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="button"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal">
</Button>
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Here is the design you are looking for.
Try it.
I needed two buttons side-by-side at the bottom. I used a horizontal linear layout, but assigning android:layout_height="0dp" and android:layout_weight="0" for the buttons' linear layout didn't work. Assigning android:layout_height="wrap_content" for just the buttons' linear layout did. Here's my working layout:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<Button
android:id="#+id/new_button"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="New" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/suggest_button"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Suggest" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
RelativeLayout will ignore its children android:layout_width or android:layout_height attributes, if the children have attributes that properly define their left and right or top and bottom values, respectively.
To achieve the result on the right image, showing the list above the button, your layout should look like this:
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
android:id="#android:id/list"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_above="#android:id/button1"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"/>
<Button
android:id="#android:id/button1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:text="#android:string/ok"/>
</RelativeLayout>
The key is to define android:layout_alignParentTop (defines top value) and android:layout_above (defines bottom value) in your RecyclerView. This way, RelativeLayout will ignore android:layout_height="match_parent", and the RecyclerView will be placed above the Button.
Also, make sure you look into android:layout_alignWithParentIfMissing, if you have a more complex layout and you still need to define these values.
I am using Xamarin Android, and my requirement is exactly the same as William T. Mallard, above, i.e. a ListView with 2 side-by-side buttons under it.
The solution is this answer didn't work in Xamarin Studio however - when I set the height of the ListView to "0dp", the ListView simply disappeared.
My working Xamarin Android code is as follows:
<?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">
<ListView
android:id="#+id/ListView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_above="#+id/ButtonsLinearLayout" />
<LinearLayout
android:id="#id/ButtonsLinearLayout"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
<Button
android:id="#+id/Button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/Button2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
I aligned ButtonsLinearLayout to the bottom of the screen, and set the ListView to be above ButtonsLinearLayout.
#jclova one more thing you can do is use layout-below=#+id/listviewid in relative layout
In your relative layout height of listview is match_parent which is fill_parent(for 2.1 and older) so best solution is if you want to use relative layout then first Declare your button then your list view, make list view position as above your button id, If you want button always at bottom then make it alignParentBottom..
Snippet is
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:id="#+id/rl1"><Button
android:layout_width="MATCH_PARENT"
android:layout_height="WRAP_CONTENT"
/><ListView
android:layout_width="MATCH_PARENT"
android:layout_height="0"
android:layout_above="#id/listview"/></RelativeLayout>
This prevents your list view taking whole place and make your button appear..
This will be the best and the most simple solution to the problem. Just add android:layout_above="#id/nameOfId" in the layout that you want to move above with respect to that layout.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context="com.sumeru.commons.activity.CommonDocumentUploadActivity">
<ListView
android:id="#+id/documentList"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="#id/verifyOtp" />
<com.sumeru.commons.helper.CustomButton
android:id="#+id/verifyOtp"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:text="#string/otp_verification" />
</RelativeLayout>