I there a way to wrap_content on a specific element inside of a parent element? For instance, I have something like the following layout:
<RelativeLayout width:match height:wrap>
<ImageView width:match height:wrap scale:fitXY />
<LinearLayout width:wrap height:wrap>
</RelativeLayout>
The parent wrap constraint is very loose, but I want it to specifically use the matching width, but always match the height of the image view.
The problem here arises when I place this view in another RelativeLayout where each view is aligned above or below another in order to fill a potentially changing superview. LinearLayout didn't really seem to stretch things to fill, so I switched to Relative, but when I did, the view described above stretched vertically when I want it to still match the height of the image view.
Is there a good solution to this problem?
You could try putting the following (pseudocode) in the onResume() method:
if(myRelativeLayout.height > myImageView.height)
myRelativeLayout.setHeight(myImageView.height);
You need to make sure to call myRelativeLayout.measure() before you do this, so the system knows what the size of the Views will be.
Just an idea for you to try, let me know if it works :)
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I cant move any elements in the layout (android studio) for some reason..
I searched alot and nothing worked with me.
All text views or buttons (all elements) stays top-left and I cant move them or even resize them...
Whats the solution for that?
And if I tried to resize the button it fills up the whole screen.
thats the code view
This is happening as you have used constraint layout in your XML file.
and the constraints as you have given in your file that makes your elements stay up at the top left.
Solution 1:
When you give start to start constraint to the parent and end to end constraint to the parent it makes your view to stick to the both side of the screen.
Even if you have given your view's height and width to wrap content it will be considered as match parent.
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout ...>
<Button android:id="#+id/button" ...
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"/>
</>
as This will make your view to stretch to the both side of the screen and will take whole space horizontally.
all you need to do is remove the constraints mentioned below:
if you want to let your view to stick to the left side of the screen-
Remove EndtoEndof = parent constraint
if you want to let your view to stick to the right side of the screen-
Remove StarttoStartof = parent constraint
The issue with resizing the button is that you have given the constraints to the view to stick to bottom and top of the screen so it will take up whole screen vertically.
if you want to make your button to stay to the bottom
Remove toptotopof = parent
if you want to make your button to stay to the top
Remove bottomtoBottomof= parent
all you need is to understand how constraint layout works .
Look into this link it will help you understand the constraint layout from broad perspective.
As the title says. I'm trying to display extremely complex layout with a full height of the viewport but I need it scrollable because under it there is a simple recyclerview with some items. I already thought about putting everything inside a multi type recyclerview adapter but the logic of the upper layout is so complex that I don't think it's possible.
I tried using NestedScrollView with fillViewport set to true but I'm stuck defining dimensions of this upper layout and recyclerview below it. Everything needs to be inside one layout because scrollview can't have more than one child, but when I put everything in a linearlayout and set the upper layout to match_parent it's showing fullscreen until data loads in the recyclerview below it. Then it's treating this upper layout as if it was wrap_content.
I'm out of ideas how can I do something like this. Preferably best would be to have some sort of ViewGroup which would support scrolling and resize the recyclerview below it as we scroll, but I'm not sure how to do it.
you need to set the layout to something like this:
<NestedScrollView - height:match_parent>
<LinearLayout - height:wrap_content>
<LinearLayout(topview) - height:wrap_content/>
<RecyclerView - height:wrap_content />
</LinearLayout>
</NestedScrollView>
And then you programmatically change the height of the "topview" to equal nestedscrollview.
If i try to make the thing u see in the screenshot it just falls back to original size. I can't change sizes of any view Objects. Anybody knows a fix?
http://imgur.com/2S1xoLP
In Eclipse (as you're using the designer), you can set the Width and Height of a View, within the Layout Parameters section of the Properties pane. This can be set to wrap_content, match_parent or fill_parent.
You can also do this within the XML markup of the activity you're editing. Click the .xml tab at the bottom of your designer, and you'll see all of the XML that makes up your activity. Once in there, find the problematic view and add:
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
Edit
Also, when inside of a RelativeLayout, it's possible that Eclipse will add default padding values, so regardless of what you set, your View's wont reach the parent layout's edge, until you remove them. Just FYI!
Is there a way to declare a row of buttons in XML so that all the buttons have the same width, which is equal to the wrap_content width of the widest button? I'm familiar with the trick of setting all the widths to 0 and assign them all a weight of 1, but that won't work if the parent layout width is set to wrap_content. I don't want to set the parent width to fill_parent because I don't want the buttons stretched more than necessary.
The only way I can think of doing this is in code (either with onMeasure logic in each button that communicates with the other buttons or with a custom layout class).
I think you'd have to do this in code.
Creating a custom layout class would be the way to go. Override onMeasure() and make it look something like this:
Call setLayoutParams on all children to set their layout_widths to WRAP_CONTENT.
Call super.onMeasure()
Iterate child views to find the one with the biggest getMeasuredWidth().
Iterate all other child views calling setLayoutParams() with the widest pixel width.
Call super.onMeasure() again. :)
That should work but I won't stake my reputation on it... happy to help you further if it doesn't.
To get the buttons in a row in the XML you need to add the buttons with in a LinearLayout and change the orietnation to horizontal i.e.
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
</LinearLayout>
As for getting the widest button and changing all the other buttons to match I am not sure as a guess you would have to have some sort of method within your activity to get the widest button and then programaticaly set all the other buttons to be the same.
Just find out what your widest button is, but it in a view with a horizontal width to match, and then use layout_width="match_parent" or "fill_parent" in < 2.3.
It'll make them all use the width assigned.
If you want to do it programatically, you need to iterate over all the sections, find the max, than iterate again and set it.
When I use a RelativeLayout with either fill_parent or wrap_content as height and an element which specifies: android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" it is ignored and it is aligned at the top. Setting the height of the RelativeLayout to an explicit value makes it work. Any clues?
This seems to be a bug in Android itself, see http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1394.
I worked around it by wrapping my RelativeLayout in a FrameLayout and putting my bottom aligned view as a children of the FrameLayout with android:layout_gravity="bottom". This hinders you from referencing it from within the RelativeLayout so you'll have to work around that (for example using margins).
If anyone has a better workaround, please share.
When you inflate the layout, use inflate(R.layout.whatever, parent, false), where parent is the ListView. If you don't do that (e.g., you pass null for the parent), RelativeLayout gets strange in list rows.
My hack for this andriod bug:
ViewGroup.LayoutParams lp=(ViewGroup.LayoutParams)view.getLayoutParams();
lp.height=view.getContentHeight();//hack for android bug about ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT and android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" on landscape orientation
view.requestLayout();
act.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_SENSOR);
I was able to get the proper alignment by specifying the problematic TextView with:
android:id="#+id/must_be_bottom_left"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_below="#id/xxx"
where xxx was the id of a TextView that has android:layout_below="#id/yyy"
and yyy is a TextView that is always above both xxx and must_be_bottom_left.
The contents of my list items can vary so that sometimes the "xxx" TextView is View.GONE, but even then the layout works as expected.
I don't know how fragile or merely seredipidous this work-around is. I am using Android 1.6 and I haven't tested it for forward compatability.