Recreating CheckedTextView's Functionality - android

I'd like to recreate the CheckedTextView's functionality using my own custom views so I can have two TextViews on the left with a CheckBox on the right, centered vertically between the two TextViews. I have the Layout working for it, which I will include below. I also have it so that when you click on the outer LinearLayout (LinearLayout1) it will pass that click to the checkbox. The only thing that I can't figure out is when you press down on a checkbox it briefly highlights the checkbox (in yellow on my device) before marking it checked. I'd like to have it do the same if you touch anywhere on the outer LinearLayout, but I don't know where I'd need to hook in to make that happen.
Here is my layout.xml
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/LinearLayout1">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:id="#+id/LinearLayout2">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/FieldValueTextView"
android:text="Value"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/FieldLabelTextView"
android:text="Label"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" />
</LinearLayout>
<CheckBox
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/LinearLayout2"
android:id="#+id/CheckBox"
android:gravity="center_vertical" />
</LinearLayout>
Thanks,
Dan

The problem I was experiencing was solved by putting the following android:focusable="false" on the CheckBox and the two TextViews so that when the ListView is clicked, it gets the focus, not the inner views.
Hope that helps someone else.

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Button size and padding within RelativeLayout

I'm attempting to create a a Heading + button similar to the Google Music App, e.g. where there is a "Songs" Header on the Left and then on the right there is a Button with the text "X more"..
I've using a RelativeLayout for the TextView and Button
My problem is that the button is taking up the size of the layout that contains the text the height is all wrong and the padding doesn't seem to do anything.
<ScrollView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
[REMOVED for clarity]
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/list_foreground"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="10dp"
android:text="#string/photos"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/photo_button"
style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:background="#color/actionbar_background"
android:padding="10dp"
android:text="test" />
</RelativeLayout>
What am I doing wrong here?
RelativeLayouts are designed to have children in the layout "relative" to each other. In other words, if you want the Button to the right of the Textview, you need to tell it.
Because you are aligning relative to the parent LEFT / RIGHT, it appears that things are "kind of" working.
You may be better off with a LinearLayout, depending on your needs. LinearLayouts use "orientation" not RelativeLayouts.
You should look over some tutorials (like this one: http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-layout/) but ultimately you will probably put your button in first and then your text view so that the textview content will wrap appropriately.
To get the same effect as the Music App I ended up using a RelativeLayout but instead of a Button I'm using another TextView, this is giving the impression it's a button but it gives me more scope to format the background etc. I think just setup a OnClickListener in the code
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/photo_title">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:text="#string/photos"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/more_photo_text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:background="#color/actionbar_background"
android:paddingLeft="5dp"
android:paddingRight="5dp"
android:text="10 MORE"
android:textColor="#color/button_text"
android:textSize="12sp" />
</RelativeLayout>

Verify if EditText is at visible positon in screen

This problem I am going to introduce, only happen in Android 4.0 +
I have a LinearLayout with 4 TableLayout, it's parent is a ScrollView.
I add TableRows dynamically into each TableLayout.
My TableRows are like this.
<TableRow xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/tableRow1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/borda"
android:layout_margin="10dip"
android:paddingLeft="10dip"
>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/l1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_marginTop="15dip"
android:layout_marginBottom="15dip"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/label"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/nome"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textColor="#526691"
android:textSize="15sp"
android:paddingLeft="10dip"
android:paddingRight="5dip"
/>
<EditText
android:id="#+id/valorLabel"
android:layout_width="140dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="15sp"
android:background="#ffffffff"
android:singleLine="true"
android:inputType="textCapSentences"
android:textColor="#777777" />
</LinearLayout>
</TableRow>
It seems to have a problem when the focused EditText is scrolled to out of the screen.
Question
How can I know if the EditText is visible in the screen? Is there a way of remove focus in the EditText if it's parent is scrolled?
Second Question
Why my TableRow's background get white when EditText is focused ?
here is the answer of the first question:
Android: how to check if a View inside of ScrollView is visible?
second one, you can set OnTouchListener on the parent view. When scrolled, its x or y value changes, then do clearFocus() on the EditText. Here is a good reference, check the Touch Event Listener part:
http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Android_Touch_and_Multi-touch_Event_Handling
If you put your source code and the error log, you would get much better specific answer.

Android Developers LinearLayout - I have a repeating list and want 1 button at the bottom of the screen, I keep getting one button per line

I am trying a task that should probably be simple..I want one button at the bottom across the bottom of the screen (floating preferably), while I have a scrollable list above that (I was able to do this in a tutorial with a simple listview and buitton).But, my list is a LinearLayout that I fill with a SimpleCursorAdapter and a viewBinder. Since I am using this LinearLayout I keep getting One button per line item, instead of one at the bottom of the screen. I have tried wrapping it with a table layout, relative layout, using two LinearLayouts, etc. Every time I get one button per line. Is this because of the way I am getting the data with a cursor adapter and filling it into the listview? Do I need to use a "merge" in my xml file? Is there a way to make two xml files and then call them both? Do I need to switch to a ListView or another way of displaying the data? This is my first app that I am trying start to finish on my own, so some of this stuff trips me up. I will include my code for the LinearLayout, please note that this is just the list without my extra button added (i deleted all my failed attempts). So I would be looking to modify the code below to contain one button that floats at the bottom of the screen all the time.
<LinearLayout android:id="#+id/LinearLayout01"
android:layout_width="290dp"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:hapticFeedbackEnabled="true">
<Button
android:id="#+id/BtnToClick"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:onClick="myClickHandler"
android:drawableLeft="#+drawable/android_button"
android:gravity="left|center_vertical"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
android:hapticFeedbackEnabled="true"
android:layout_weight=".1">
</Button>
<TextView android:text=""
android:id="#+id/tvViewRow"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:visibility="gone">
</TextView>
<TextView android:text="#+id/text11"
android:id="#+id/text11"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:visibility="gone">
</TextView>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text5"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="3dip"
android:gravity="left|center_vertical"
android:layout_weight=".20"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text9"
android:layout_column="5"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="3dip"
android:gravity="center|center_vertical"
android:layout_weight=".1"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text10"
android:layout_column="6"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="3dip"
android:gravity="left|center_vertical"
android:layout_weight=".15"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text12"
android:layout_column="8"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:visibility="gone"
android:padding="3dip"
android:gravity="left|center_vertical" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/BtnToClick2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:onClick="myClickHandler3"
android:gravity="center|center_vertical"
android:background="#+drawable/coup0a"
android:hapticFeedbackEnabled="true"
>
</Button>
Thanks in advance!
-Joe
You need to add the button as a footer or a header according to your needs. You can try this code .The R.layout.header and footer are separate xml layout files which you would have to define.
View header = inflater.inflate(R.layout.header,null);
View footer = inflater.inflate(R.layout.footer,null);
addHeaderView(header);
addFooterView(footer);
You should absolutely use a listview for this job. Listviews are highly optimized for displaying many entries. Just let your activity extend from a ListActivity and create a layout xml file with a listview widget that has the id "#android:id/list" and the listview activity will hook onto that list automatically. You are free to place other widgets in the layout aswell. Here is an example layout:
<LinearLayout 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="#android:id/list"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/chooseOther"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/add_fav"/>
</LinearLayout>
It has a list with a button sitting on the bottom of the screen at all times, even if you have a long list of items.

Center multiple items in a RelativeLayout without putting them in a container?

I have a RelativeLayout containing a pair of side-by-side buttons, which I want to be centered within the layout. I could just put the buttons in a LinearLayout and center that in the RelativeLayout, but I want to keep my xml as clean as possible.
Here's what I tried, this just puts the "apply" button in the center and the "undo" button to the left of it:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="15sp">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/instructions"
android:text="#string/instructions"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="15sp"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/apply"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="#string/apply"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:layout_below="#id/instructions"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/undo"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="#string/undo"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/apply"
android:layout_below="#id/instructions"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
android:gravity will align the content inside the view or layout it is used on.
android:layout_gravity will align the view or layout inside of his parent.
So adding
android:gravity="center"
to your RelativeLayout should do the trick...
Like this:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_marginTop="15sp">
</RelativeLayout>
Here is an extension of BrainCrash's answer. It is a non nested option that groups and centers all three horizontally and vertically. In addition, it takes the top TextView and centers it horizontally across both buttons. If desired, you can then center the text within the TextView with android:gravity="center". I also removed the margins, added color, and set the RelativeLayout height to fill_parent to highlight the layout. Tested on API 11.
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:background="#android:color/black"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/instructions"
android:text="TEST"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:background="#android:color/darker_gray"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/undo"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/apply"
android:gravity="center"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/apply"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="APPLY"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:layout_below="#id/instructions"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/undo"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="UNDO"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/apply"
android:layout_below="#id/instructions"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
android:layout_gravity="center"
will almost give what you're looking for.
Here is a combination of the above answer's that solved my specific situation:
Centering two separate labels within a layout that also includes a button in the left most position of the same layout (button, label, label, from left to right, where the labels are centered relative to the layout containing all three views - that is, the button doesn't push the labels off center).
I solved this by nesting two RelativeLayout's, where the outer most layout included the
Button and an Inner-RelativeLayout.
The Inner-RelativeLayout contained the two text labels (TextView's).
Here is a snippet that provides the details of how the centering and other layout stuff was done:
see: RelativeLayout Gravity not applied? and
Gravity and layout_gravity on Android
for the difference's between gravity and layout_gravity.
Tweak the paddingLeft on the btn_button1 Button to see that the TextView's do not move.
(My apologies to havexz for the downvotes. I was too hasty in thinking that just b/c your suggestions didn't solve the exact question being ask, that they do help to solve very similar situations (the answer here solves a very specific situation, and only the combination of all these answer's solved my problem. I tried upvoting, but it won't let me unless I edit the answer's, which I don't want to do.)
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/rl_outer"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="50dip"
android:background="#FF0000FF">
<Button
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/btn_button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FF00FF00"
android:text="<"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:paddingLeft="40dip"/>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/rl_inner"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FFFF00FF"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:gravity="center">
<TextView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/tv_text1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FF505050"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:textColor="#FFFFFFFF"
android:text="Complaint #"
android:gravity="center"/>
<TextView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/tv_text2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#FF505050"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:textColor="#FFFFFFFF"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/tv_text1"
android:gravity="center"/>
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
LinearLayout is a good option. Other than that there are options like create an invisible view and center that and then align left button to the left it and right on the right of it. BUT those are just work arounds.

Missing Button Placed after ListView

I have a layout with 3 button at the top in a row and then a ListView followed by a button below the listView.
This is my layout.xml file
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<Button android:id="#+id/btn_top10"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TOP 10"/>
<Button android:id="#+id/btn_top100"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TOP 100"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/btn_top10"/>
<Button android:id="#+id/btn_showAll"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Show All"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/btn_top100"/>
<ListView android:id="#+id/LV_Device"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/btn_top10"
android:layout_above="#id/LV_Device"/>
<Button android:id="#+id/btn_clearResult"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Clear Results"
android:layout_below="#id/LV_Device"/>
</RelativeLayout>
This will give a result like this
If i add some values to the ListView then its ok, the button below will be show
But if the listview becomes larger than the screen size then the button below that will not be visible even after scrolling to the bottom of the listView
How to solve this issue?? I don't want button to be fixed at the bottom of the screen. I want the button to be show at the end of the ListView only
Change your ListView's height to 0dip. Then change the attribute
android:layout_above="#id/LV_Device"
to
android:layout_above="#+id/btn_clearResult"
Finally, modify the last button by removing android:layout_below and add instead android:layout_alignParentBottom="true".
If you got the answer, this is for those who still come in search of the answer for your question. You should be using ListView.addFooterView(yourbutton) to your list.
(but don't forget to put this statement before setting adapter for your listview, as stated in the document.)
Shijilal
you maybe try this
your top button
your bottom group button
put your RelativeLayout in a scroll view this way your button will be displayed even after the scroll use this might work
<ScrollView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/ScrollView01"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:paddingTop="10dip"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:paddingBottom="10dip">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<Button
android:id="#+id/btn_top10"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TOP 10" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/btn_top100"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TOP 100"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/btn_top10" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/btn_showAll"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Show All"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/btn_top100" />
<ListView
android:id="#+id/LV_Device"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/btn_top10"
android:layout_above="#id/LV_Device" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/btn_clearResult"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Clear Results"
android:layout_below="#id/LV_Device" />
</RelativeLayout>
Initialy no item in the listView.so clear result button at the top. After add some item clear button goes down. But when more items are added clear button goes down & out of screen resolution. I want to know that Initialy when items are added clear button goes down. when clear button reached at bottom then it will not goes down further. you can add more items in the list view.

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