I am trying to figure out a way to float multiple Views over another one, probably either a ListView, or GridLayout. Almost all questions answer with FrameLayout, unfortunately that doesn't work because it was made to float a single View, so that rules it out of the question. I was thinking of using RelativeLayout, but I am having trouble figuring out how to make it work with that. Has anybody been able to figure out a way to do this? Any advice would be much appreciated!
Later children in a RelativeLayout float over earlier children.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<Button
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="#string/big"
android:textSize="120dip"
android:textStyle="bold"/>
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="#string/small"/>
</RelativeLayout>
The second Button floats over top of the first Button, giving you:
Here is the complete sample project: https://github.com/commonsguy/cw-omnibus/tree/master/Containers/RelativeOverlap.
If I follow what you are asking, it seems like the solutions posted for this seemingly unrelated question might work for your application as well:
Android - How to display a spinner with value but display a different one
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I have the following problem, and I cannot figure out how to eve try solving it (or whether there is a way):
My problem
I have SrollView, containing to EditText input fields. One is a single line, below is a multiline. Everything's fine and works as expected, up until I put too much stuff into the multiline EditText. When I fast scroll the view, the scrolling skips and stutters, very obviously, the whole effect is rather disturbing. tried on a Galaxy S3 with a custom AOSP ROM, and Note 4 with official 5.1.1, no difference at all.
I would expect a very heavy EditText makes it difficult to smoothly redraw on a fling, but this starts happening with relatively short text (approx 4-5 screen-pages long).
Edit: This also seems to happen on a simple scroll, when I do as much as touch it and move it a few lines (scrolling is not near to being smooth, that is)
The setup
I have reduced the widgets to the bare minimum, even removed padding, only the problem does not improve. From the Java code I also removed anything (any styling, or typeface, anything that affects the widgets at all), still no improvement.
If this is of any significance, the ScrollView in question is inside a fragment, that is one of two pages of a ViewPager. There is nothing else on this fragment ATM.
Here's the XML (as you will see, it's as base as possible):
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:singleLine="true"/>
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:isScrollContainer="false"
android:inputType="textMultiLine"/>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
What I tried
Any advice I found regards only ListViews, and some attributes like android:smoothScrollbar, which have no effect here (I tried them all).
For the record, I did try out of frustration all of the below ( I know most of these has not much to do with ScrollViews, but I'm becoming hopeless here):
android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
android:fastScrollEnabled="true"
android:scrollingCache="true"
android:smoothScrollbar="true"
and also tried setting from the Java code things like
.setSmoothScrollingEnabled(true);
.fling(3500);
still no luck.
Question recap
Is there any way to make a simple widget like this scroll smoothly at all?
Thanks for your time if you've read through and even more if you answer. :)
I'm fairly new to Android development and planning to build a simple news reader app to further familiarize myself to the platform.
The problem is; I want each of the news-item to look like Google+'s post item below:
Well, basically a big headline picture with a title and some description underneath.
I tried to re-create it using a Button (because the whole thing needs to be clickable by the user) while setting a drawable at the top of the text. It worked quite nicely.. until I decided to add more drawables to it:
Here's my XML code (although I doubt anyone would need it):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:drawablePadding="8dp"
android:drawableTop="#drawable/temp_jakarta"
android:text="Button" />
</RelativeLayout>
Can you tell me why is this happening or maybe, suggest me another way to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance!
p.s., I'm pretty sorry about the link; as a new user, SO didn't allow me to post images just yet. :(
Put everything inside a RelativeLayout and place one relative to others (event on top, this doesn't matter at all) using the layout_below/above/left_of/right_of/... etc.
See http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/relative.html for usage, http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/RelativeLayout.html for a complete reference of the RelativeLayout class and "Android Layout Tricks" series in the Developer Blog for some tips_
http://android-developers.blogspot.com.es/2009/02/android-layout-tricks-1.html
http://android-developers.blogspot.com.es/2009/02/android-layout-tricks-2-reusing-layouts.html
http://android-developers.blogspot.com.es/2009/03/android-layout-tricks-3-optimize-with.html
I am a new one in Android so please sorry for stupidity.
Well my problem is in multiple layers -
I would like to combine two transparent ImageViews one above the other. This is similar to photoshops layers, what is the sample layers activity in android?
You can use a RelativeLayout for this.
The property android:layout_centerInParent If true, centers the child horizontally and vertically within its parent. [boolean]
Similarly there are properties like ,
android:layout_alignParentLeft,
android:layout_alignParentRight,
android:layout_alignParentTop,
android:layout_alignParentBottom.
Try these.
Already answered Overlapping Views in Android ? That should be all you need, using RelativeLayout:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/layout"
>
<ImageView android:id="#+id/imageview1"
android:background="#00000000"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/image1"
/>
<ImageView android:id="#+id/imageview2"
android:background="#00000000"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/image2"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
would be an example code for you.
you can use the layer-list， for a full investigation, please refer to http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html#LayerList
Well its quite possible to do in android, but the thing is what actually you are going to do with that. you can give the same positions for both the images in layout now both will be overlapped and based on your condition or situation you can show and hide one another programatically. In the same way you can give multiple images overlapped on one another. Hope this will help you out to understand :)
I'm trying to make an Android layout like the one below. I have a couple of questions:
1 - what is the element called that FB uses for posts? Ie, it doesn't look like a text view, but the element looks like it separates each post with a divider line. Also, the text style is different for a person's name and how long ago they posted. I'm looking to duplicate this (minus pictures) but I can't find the right UI elements.
What is the element called at the bottom? It's like a static menu. IE, it's the same as a menu but instead of pressing "menu" to access it, it's on the page at all times.
Finally, are there good tutorials/examples on how to make nice looking, professional layouts like the apps on the market? The tutorials that I've found on layouts are really basic. I'd like to understand what elements exist, what all of the attributes mean and see examples, etc. So far I'm only able to see the capabilities from other applications. I'd like to have a handbook or some type of some type of reference manual to go to.
For the "fancy" text views you can make a linear layout that hosts a <RelativeLayout>:
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="0">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/userPhoto"
android:layout_height="64dip"
android:layout_width="64dip"
/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/userFullName"
android:layout_height="25dp"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_marginLeft="70dp"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
Once you have a relative layout you can add different views inside of that to create a sort of customeized view.
As far as good examples I would look at this book. It's easy to understand and very helpful on such things.
I found a really helpful tutorial to solve a problem in ListView Row design a bit like yours. It goes a bit further explaining how to do Async Image loading but the first part should help you.
Also, I might be wrong (I am still a bit new to this) but I think the answer above lacks a TextView for the actual message besides the userName and the relative positions of the elements since it is a relative layout. Something like:
<TextView
android:id="#+id/userName"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/userPhoto"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/userPhoto"
android:textSize="17dp"
android:textStyle="bold" />
<!-- actual message -->
<TextView
android:id="#+id/message"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/userName"
android:layout_marginTop="1dip"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/userPhoto"
android:textSize="15dp" />
The key in organizing a relative layout is:
android:layout_alignTop="#id/userPhoto"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/userPhoto"
and
android:layout_below="#id/userName"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/userPhoto"
I might be wrong but if it helps, great! Just adding my bit to the other answer.
Cheers
I have a background in iPhone development, which may be a cause of some of my confusion with Android, which I am very new at developing.
My question is this: How to I create two TextViews, and specify their exact location on screen? For example, on the iPhone, I would create a UILabel, generate a rectangular frame that specified the label's size and position, and then set this rectangle to the frame property of the UILabel.
If you can help me understand the similarities with Objective C and iOS' UILabel, that would be most helpful.
On Android, we don't use absolute screen positions. This is highly discouraged. It's pretty understandable that you think this way if you are coming from iOS. But you need to revise your habits.
Instead of absolute positions, we use layouts, such as LinearLayout, RelativeLayout or FrameLayout. All of these allow you to arrange your views dynamically. And in many cases, it will automagically adapt to the screen size, which vary a lot from device to device.
Actually, there's nothing exotic about dynamic layouts. Many major UI toolkits, such as GTK, or Qt, work similarly. Pixel position are a bad idea in my opinion, except maybe in the Apple world, where the OS and the hardware are tightly coupled, but this is an exception actually.
So, in your case, all that you need is to put your text views into the appropriate layout. Please read the documentation and tutorials about the different types of layouts mentioned above to decide which one is best. The question is how you want your views to be placed relatively to each other.
Create a basic Android project in eclipse. You will be having a main.xml layout file in your project. You can open it in Eclipse using Ctrl+Shift+r and keying in main.xml
copy paste this in your xml after clearing its content.
<?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="fill_parent">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:text="TextView One"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"></TextView>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:text="TextView Two"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"></TextView>
</LinearLayout>