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Layout Design with Pop-up

In Android App, I have a card game designed with the Linear layout and image buttons. On completing a level in this game I have to do the following things as listed below...
I have to show a dialog like screen which should pop up on middle of screen. This pop-up should hold some background image and buttons on it. The pop-up should fly from bottom-up.
The card game parent screen should be blurred this this pop-up is shown.
I have seen the similar kind of effects in showing ads from Appflood.
Could you please give some suggestion to this effectively.
Parent Screen
With Pop-Up
Thanks in Advance..

Try that:
Don't use AlertDialog, you can use one normal layout and one normal class. ¿How?
It's easy, you have one class called "FirstActivity.java", and one second class called "SecondActivity.java".
FirstActivity
Designed this class as you like
SecondActivity
You are going to create your own popup with ImageView,Buttons and textviews and you are going to Overlay your layout background.
Popup_layout.xml
<?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"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/popup"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:src="#drawable/popup_background" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_marginRight="39dp"
android:layout_marginTop="72dp"
android:onClick="go"
android:src="#drawable/ok" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/question"
android:text:"level completed"
</RelativeLayout>
manifest
Declare SecondActivity with custom Theme.
......
<activity
android:name="com.example.comandero.SecondActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/Theme.Overlay" />
.......
Styles.xml
Add new style for background on your layout.
<style name="Theme.Overlay" parent="android:style/Theme.Translucent">
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowContentOverlay">#null</item>
<item name="android:backgroundDimEnabled">true</item>
<item name="android:background">#android:color/transparent</item>
</style>
Try it and say me please. If you dont understand something say me.

I have a very simple solution (and I tested it - it works pretty well, as illustrated by the pictures I posted).
Imagine you have an invisible (GONE) generic View that covers the whole screen (match_parent, match_parent) and has a reddish semitransparent color.
It would become VISIBLE before showing the Dialog and GONE again after dismissing it.
Since it's GONE, you don't see it and it doesn't waste any space until it becomes VISIBLE.
This approach requires the outer container being a FrameLayout or a RelativeLayout (by setting the View properly: anchoring it to the four Parent's corners).
I used a RelativeLayout - because I really love these containers.
dlg_red_bg.xml
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#android:color/black"
android:padding="8dp"
>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:background="#android:color/black"
android:padding="8dp"
>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnTopLeft"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:background="#drawable/ball"
android:text="Btn 1"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="24sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnTopRight"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/btnTopLeft"
android:background="#drawable/ball"
android:text="Btn 2"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="24sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnBottomLeft"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/btnTopLeft"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:background="#drawable/ball"
android:text="Btn 3"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="24sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnBottomRight"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/btnTopRight"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/btnBottomLeft"
android:background="#drawable/ball"
android:text="Btn 4"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="24sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnDialog"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:background="#drawable/ball"
android:onClick="clickHandler"
android:text="Dialog"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="24sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
<View
android:id="#+id/vwRedOver"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:background="#8f00"
android:visibility="gone"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
code used to highlight the background
public void clickHandler(final View v)
{
switch(v.getId())
{
case R.id.btnDialog:
{
vwRedOver.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
final AlertDialog.Builder bld = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
bld.setMessage("Some Message")
.setCancelable(true)
.setPositiveButton
(
"OK",
new DialogInterface.OnClickListener()
{
#Override
public final void onClick
(final DialogInterface dlg, final int id)
{
vwRedOver.setVisibility(View.GONE);
dlg.cancel();
}
}
)
.setNegativeButton
(
"Cancel",
new DialogInterface.OnClickListener()
{
#Override
public final void onClick
(final DialogInterface dlg, final int id)
{
vwRedOver.setVisibility(View.GONE);
dlg.cancel();
}
}
);
bld.create().show();
}
}
}
result
Before Clicking on "Dialog"
After Clicking on "Dialog"
NOTE 1: It's dark because of the black background
NOTE 2: You see a black border, because I set a padding on the outer RelativeLayout - you can remove it
After Clicking on either "OK" or "Cancel" - returns to the initial state (my Dialog doesn't do anything interesting on OK - It's only for demo purposes)

Sidebar in each activity

For an application I am designing we have to deal with some "special" needs of our users. One of these is to create a navigation sidebar that has to appear in almost all the activities.
This navigation bar has to contain always the same three buttons that links to three activities: HOME, INFO, CONFIGURATION.
Each of these three activities can also load others activities that can (or cannot) contain this navigation bar.
Each of these buttons has to reset the current activity-stack status bringing to the top the corresponding activity selected by the user.
The navigation bar has to be customisable (made visible/invisible) and I would like also to deactivate some of the buttons.
EDIT: It has to be similar to a Drawer, but the buttons have to be highly customisable (in size and appearance) and it has to be always on (no sliding functions).
What is the best way to achieve that without manually including those buttons in each of my layouts?

You can create this layout manually but only once - in your ActivityBase class. Other activities can extend this base class.
EDIT:
As I said, I'm improving my answer.
So my idea is to create an Activity with menu. And if other Activity needs to have the same menu it can extend this ActivityBase and add it's own layout.
Let's look on a simple example.
ActivityBase layout:
<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"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/menu"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:background="#android:color/black" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:text="Button" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/button1"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:text="Button" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button3"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBaseline="#+id/button2"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/button2"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:text="Button" />
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_below="#+id/menu" >
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
As you can see I created a simple layout that contains menu bar and a container for layout from Activities that will be extending AcivityBase.
Now ActivityBase:
public class ActivityBase extends Activity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_base);
}
}
It's a simple Activity, but if you want, you can also place here menu events handling if they are the same for all Activities that will be extending this.
And now let's see at SecondActivity's layout:
<?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" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextView" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editText1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ems="10" >
<requestFocus />
</EditText>
</LinearLayout>
It's a normal layout, nothing special. I put some controls in there just for purpose of this example.
And SecondActivity class:
public class SecondActivity extends MainActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
inflater.inflate(R.layout.second_activity, (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.container));
}
}
It extends ActivityBase and what is important - it does not call setContentView. Instead we are creating LayoutInflater and we are inflating second_activity layout in the container that we created in activity_base layout.

setVisibility(View.VISIBLE) doesn't always work. Ideas?

I am trying to show a pair of hidden buttons (using setVisibility(View.VISIBLE), within a RelativeLayout), but it doesn't always work. The button shows OK on a Galaxy Tab 10.1" but not in a smaller tablet (not sure which model), nor on an Android 4.0 emulator.
I randomly discovered that, for a certain TextView t, the following code causes the buttons to become visible:
t.setText(t.getText());
...
button.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
t is located in the same RelativeLayout but is not related to the buttons (their locations are independent and non-overlapping).
Edit: In case some Android dev wants to track this down...
I was able to reduce the code to the following layout that exhibits the problem on an Android 4.0.3 emulator but not a Galaxy Tab. I found that I need a SurfaceView or the problem does not occur (for example, change it to TextView and the problem disappears).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- layout/test.xml -->
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/relativeLayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<SurfaceView
android:id="#+id/mapCtrl"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_above="#+id/bottomPanel"
android:text="Placeholder"
android:layout_marginTop="18dip" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:text="#string/map_mode_title" />
<!--=================================================-->
<!-- Bottom bar: current road name and current speed -->
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/bottomPanel"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:background="#f228"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:textColor="#ffff" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnNavMode"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_marginRight="3dip"
android:textColor="#fff"
android:text="Switch to\nNav Mode" />
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/currentStreetPanel"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:onClick="onClick"
android:clickable="true"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/currentStreetHdg"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:text="Current street"
android:textColor="#fff"
android:textSize="10dip" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/currentStreet"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_below="#+id/currentStreetHdg"
android:layout_marginTop="-8dip"
android:singleLine="true"
android:text="Current street"
android:textColor="#fff"
android:textSize="30dip" />
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/RelativeLayout2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#ff606060"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/yourSpeedHdg"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="3dip"
android:text="Your speed"
android:textColor="#fff"
android:textSize="10dip" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/speed"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_below="#+id/yourSpeedHdg"
android:layout_marginLeft="3dip"
android:layout_marginTop="-8dip"
android:text="0"
android:textColor="#fff"
android:textSize="30dip" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/speedUnit"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBaseline="#+id/speed"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dip"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/speed"
android:text="kph"
android:textColor="#fff"
android:textSize="18dip" />
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<!--================-->
<!-- On-map buttons -->
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnClearRoute"
android:background="#F00"
android:textColor="#fff"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Clear\nroute"/>
<ZoomControls
android:id="#+id/zoomControls"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/mapCtrl"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="-25dip"
android:orientation="horizontal" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnFindRoute"
android:layout_width="100dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/mapCtrl"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_marginRight="2dip"
android:layout_marginBottom="65dip"
android:text="Route to selected location"
android:textSize="17dip"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnUnselect"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/btnFindRoute"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/btnFindRoute"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="2dip"
android:text="Unselect" />
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/showMePanel"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="#+id/btnFindRoute"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/btnFindRoute"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/btnFindRoute"
android:padding="4dip"
android:background="#bbbb"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Show me..."
android:textColor="#fff"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnShowVehicle"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="My car"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnShowRoute"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="The route"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnShowDestination"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Destination"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnShowMap"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="The map"/>
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
The Activity class simply toggles the visibility of the two buttons when any of the buttons are clicked. Again, on some devices it works, on others it does not.
package mentor.simplegps;
import android.app.*;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.*;
import android.widget.*;
public class TestActivity extends Activity implements View.OnClickListener
{
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
setContentView(R.layout.test);
boilerplate();
setVisibilities();
}
Button _btnShowMap, _btnShowVehicle, _btnShowRoute, _btnShowDestination;
Button _btnUnselect, _btnFindRoute, _btnNavMode;
TextView _title;
void boilerplate()
{
_btnUnselect = attachBtn(R.id.btnUnselect);
_btnShowMap = attachBtn(R.id.btnShowMap);
_btnShowVehicle = attachBtn(R.id.btnShowVehicle);
_btnShowRoute = attachBtn(R.id.btnShowRoute);
_btnShowDestination = attachBtn(R.id.btnShowDestination);
_btnFindRoute = attachBtn(R.id.btnFindRoute);
_btnNavMode = attachBtn(R.id.btnNavMode);
_title = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.title);
}
private Button attachBtn(int btnId) {
Button b = (Button)findViewById(btnId);
b.setOnClickListener(this);
return b;
}
boolean haveSel;
public void onClick(View v)
{
haveSel = !haveSel;
setVisibilities();
}
void setVisibilities()
{
_btnFindRoute.setVisibility(haveSel ? View.VISIBLE : View.INVISIBLE);
_btnUnselect.setVisibility (haveSel ? View.VISIBLE : View.INVISIBLE);
// Fixes the problem
//_title.setText(_title.getText());
}
}

SurfaceView is the sole culprit (of course, this also applies to GLSurfaceView, RSSurfaceView and VideoView, all of which inherits from SurfaceView). It exposes lots of weird behaviours when dealing with other views on top of it. Playing with View.setVisibility() is one of those issues. Clearly, SurfaceView has not been designed to be used with other views (even though the official doc says it ought to be) but as a standalone view for videos, games or OpenGL stuffs.
For the visibility issue, I've found that using View.GONE instead of View.INVISIBLE resolve it. If you don't want to use GONE, try changing the focus for example (and back to the one that had focus before), or changing other states. The goal is to wake up the underlying UI system somehow.
In short: when something weird happens with your views and you have a SurfaceView (or subclass) somewhere, try replacing it with something else so you don't lose hours searching what you're doing wrong when you're doing it right (and no false beliefs). This way, you know SurfaceView is to blame and you can hack around it with beautiful comments to piss on it without qualms.

For the record: I had this problem, tried a bunch of random stuff (thanks Alex!), and in my case what solved it was doing seekBar.requestLayout() directly after the setVisible on the very seekbar that was refusing to show.

This is my Solution
setAlpha(0)
btnName.setAlpha(0)
Is working for all views like => Buttons - Images - Texts and ...

In my case View.VISIBLE/View.GONE was not working always. When I switched my toggle to View.VISIBLE/View.INVISIBLE it started to work as intended.

I (annoyingly) had similar difficulty with having a button on top of a SurfaceView preview and had to put the Button in a RelativeLayout and make the RelativeLayout VISIBLE/INVISIBLE. Might be worth a shot for anyone else having the same issue.
...And I also had to programatically call the layout to be brought to from: buttonLayout.bringToFront() right after findViewById.

Button Inside Android ListView doesnt respond to clicks

I have a default ListView that i have added my custom views for the list items, but the buttons inside of these views are not clickable most of the time. I output a Log.v when the button receives a click event, but i have to tap the button almost a dozen times before it will register the click.
The other problem related tot his that i am having is that when the button is pressed i want an animation to happen revealing a menu sliding out from beneath it. At the moment i have tried several different methods like making a custom class for the views versus just using a layout inflater to get the relativeLayout object for the view, but nothing is working properly. I have even tried using listview.getAdapter().notifyDataSetChanged(); but that only has a pop-into-place for the extended view when i want an animation.
I have searched everywhere and it seems like the only possible solutions are to either rewrite my own custom listview or to use a linearlayout with a scrollview. The latter seems easier but i dont think it is nearly as optimized as the listview is.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, if you need to see some code, please let me know...
Thanks!
UPDATE:
the getView() contains this:
Holder hold;
convertView = friends.get(position);
hold = new Holder();
hold.pos = position;
convertView.setTag(hold);
return convertView;
basically i pass an ArrayList<RelativeLayout>, at the moment, to the Adapter so that i dont have to create a new view each time and so that the animation will stay animated when i scroll down...
inside the OnCreate() for this activity i set that ArrayList<RelativeLayout> with this next code, but this is only temporary as i plan to use another method later, like an Async task or something so that this view contains some data...
RelativeLayout temp;
for(int i=0; i<30; i++){
temp = (RelativeLayout) inflater.inflate(R.layout.list_item, null);
final LinearLayout extraListItemInfo = (LinearLayout) temp.findViewById(R.id.extraListItemInfo);
Button infoBtn = (Button) temp.findViewById(R.id.infoBtn);
infoBtn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
Log.v("ListItem", "Button has been clicked... ");
extraListItemInfo .setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
ExpandAnimation closeAnim = new ExpandAnimation(extraListItemInfo , animHeight);
closeAnim.setDuration(750);
closeAnim.setFillAfter(true);
if(extraListItemInfo .getTag() == null || !extraListItemInfo .getTag().equals("expanded")){
extraListItemInfo .getLayoutParams().height = 0;
friendInfoList.startAnimation(closeAnim.expand());
extraListItemInfo .setTag("expanded");
}else if(extraListItemInfo .getTag().equals("expanded")){
extraListItemInfo .startAnimation(closeAnim.collapse());
extraListItemInfo .setTag("closed");
}
//((BaseAdapter) listview.getAdapter()).notifyDataSetChanged(); i tried it here once but then left it
//as the only action inside the listview's onitemclick()
}
});
listItems.add(temp);
}
this is the list item that i am using:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/darkgrey"
android:paddingBottom="5dp" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/extraListItemInfo "
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/listItemInfo"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="-10dp"
android:background="#color/grey"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:visibility="gone" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/RelativeLayout04"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/activity_list_height"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/ImageView04"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="25dp"
android:layout_margin="5dp"
android:src="#drawable/logo_d" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TextView04"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/ImageView04"
android:text="TextView"
android:textColor="#color/black"
android:textSize="17dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/RelativeLayout03"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/activity_list_height" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/ImageView03"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="25dp"
android:layout_margin="5dp"
android:src="#drawable/logo_d" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TextView03"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/ImageView03"
android:text="TextView"
android:textColor="#color/black"
android:textSize="17dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/RelativeLayout02"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/activity_list_height" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/ImageView02"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="25dp"
android:layout_margin="5dp"
android:src="#drawable/logo_d" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TextView02"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/ImageView02"
android:text="TextView"
android:textColor="#color/black"
android:textSize="17dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/relativeLayout1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/activity_list_height" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="25dp"
android:layout_margin="5dp"
android:src="#drawable/logo_d" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/imageView1"
android:text="TextView"
android:textColor="#color/black"
android:textSize="17dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/RelativeLayout01"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/activity_list_height">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/ImageView01"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="25dp"
android:layout_margin="5dp"
android:src="#drawable/logo_d" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TextView01"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/ImageView01"
android:text="TextView"
android:textColor="#color/black"
android:textSize="17dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/listItemInfo"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="95dp"
android:background="#drawable/friend_cell_background2x"
android:clickable="true" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/leftLayout"
android:layout_width="90dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imgCompany"
android:layout_width="60dp"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:scaleType="centerInside"
android:src="#drawable/user2x" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView2"
android:layout_width="40dp"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:src="#drawable/online_indicator2s" />
</RelativeLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/linearLayout1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/leftLayout"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
android:gravity="left|center"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingLeft="5dp" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/lblCompanyName"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Contact Name"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:textSize="18dp"
android:textStyle="bold" >
</TextView>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/lblReawrdDesc"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Last Played Offer"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:textSize="17dp" >
</TextView>
</LinearLayout>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView4"
android:layout_width="40dp"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
android:src="#drawable/facebook_btn2x" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/infoBtn"
style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
android:layout_width="40dp"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/imageView4"
android:background="#drawable/info_btn2x"
android:clickable="true" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="13dp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/infoBtn"
android:text="Follows 30+"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:textSize="11dp" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"
android:layout_width="75dp"
android:layout_height="20dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/textView2"
android:background="#drawable/fan_btn2x"
android:text="Fans 30+"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:textSize="11dp" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView5"
android:layout_width="40dp"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/imageView4"
android:src="#drawable/google_btn2x" />
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
sorry for any layout problems that may make things difficult to read... but i hope this helps you guys to understand my problem... Thanks
UPDATE 2:
All of these answers have been helpful in some way, but i think the main issue that i must first fix is why the buttons do not receive click events until i have first scrolled away from that listItem, then back to it, then clicked the button again... If someone can help find a solution to THAT i think that everything else will be much easier to solve...
Thanks...
A screenshot as requested, but remember that this shot was taken on a samsung galaxy tab 10.1 and due to me using the same layout for this larger screen, it looks much different from what it does on the phone i usually test with (Motorola droid x that isnt rooted and cant take screenshots...)
Another Update:
I managed to get the clicking and animation working nicely by Extending ArrayAdapter instead of base adapter. Sadly i am still experiencing problems as only the bottom half of the list is clickable. The top half of the list still behaves as before with the very glitchy click events... Any ideas as to what is happening this time? Thanks...

Well this isn't really an answer, but after rewriting this a few times I managed to fix it so that it functions exactly the way I wanted.
This time I left all of the data separate from each view and had each list item be a custom class inheriting RelativeLayout and also implementing its own OnClickListener for its specific infoBtn.
My adapter now simply extends ArrayAdapter<> and overrides this getView() method:
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
if(convertView != null && (convertView instanceof FriendListItem2))
((FriendListItem2) convertView).setFriendInfo(friends.get(position));
else
convertView = new FriendListItem2(getContext(), friends.get(position));
return convertView;
}
Finally, in the main activity for this page I simply set the ListView with an adapter that I passed the data to.
This is all much cleaner than I had before and I wish it hadn't taken several rewrites of the code to get it right. Hopefully someone can benefit from this, though I still have no clue why I was getting a problem before.
Thanks for all previous suggestions.

try using this property in the top level layout in which your child views are placed.
android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants"
Its a bit tricky but I would suggest that if the above line does not work, try toggling between the removing of focusable=true and focusable="false" from the buttons. It should work.
Cheers!

That is a complex layout to create for every row...
Anyway, when you use the new keyword you are creating a different scope. In short your onClickListener does not see the 30 different extraListItemInfo references you expect it to see.
Try something like this:
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
LinearLayout extraListItemInfo = v.getParent();
...

add android:onClick="onClick" to your button xml, it'll make it call the onClick() method

I had the same problem. Try taking the "android:clicable="true" " from the Relative Layout. When you do that the activity expects you to do make setOnClickListener to that RelativeLayout . It worked for me

you can fire click event on button from getView() method of ListViewAdapter Class.
See this question
Android : How to set onClick event for Button in List item of ListView.

Android 3.1 Dialog not the right size

I am creating a custom dialog in my app and it looks fine in the Layout Editor, but is not the right size on the device. Here's the layout for the dialog:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:background="#drawable/dialog_border"
android:paddingLeft="20dp"
android:paddingRight="20dp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/image"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:padding="10dp"
android:src="#drawable/wifi" />
<TextView
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/heading"
android:layout_below="#+id/image"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/cancel_button"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/continue_button"
android:gravity="center"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:text="#string/lost_connection"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
<TextView
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/description"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/heading"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/cancel_button"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/continue_button"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
android:text="#string/try_again" />
<Button
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/cancel_button"
android:layout_below="#+id/description"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:id="#+id/dismiss_button"
android:text="#string/dismiss" />
</RelativeLayout>
This is what it looks like in the Layout Editor:
But this is what it looks like on the device:
It has that weird bit of extra space at the top and right side and the button is compress vertically.

That blank area is the dialog title. It can be turned off when creating the DialogFragment as:
DialogFragment df = new MyDialogFragment();
df.setStyle(DialogFragment.STYLE_NO_TITLE, 0);
df.show(ft, "dialog");
Where the 0 in set style lets the platform choose an appropriate style and "dialog" is whatever tag you'd like to set for your dialog fragment.

I think that extra weird space at the top is the place for the dialog title. As i see on the screenshots you used a dialog and inflated a custom view into that dialog ?
I guess worth a try to hide the title of the dialog with yourDialog.getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);