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Android custom row layout issue

Sorry in advance I need to include a few pictures to make my problem a little easier to understand. I am using a linear layout for my custom rows and it is giving me lots of trouble trying to get the rows to look how I want. Currently it looks like this
Please forgive the quick paint picture I am about to show but it is how I would like the layout to look.
I would like to add the name textbox above the dog picture, and a time stamp textbox above each of the 1 and 2. Whenever I try to add textboxes to display this it really messes with the layout. The textbox above the dog picture always wants to go to the right or left of the dog image and push the image to the middle of the page and the buttons get spread out further. I do not have much experience with this layout I typically do relative layout where I can drag and drop pieces. Any advise or help is greatly appreciated.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="150dip"
android:layout_height="150dip"
android:id="#+id/dogimage"
android:clickable="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:background="#drawable/dogpic"
android:onClick="sendProfile"
android:scaleType="fitXY" />
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="75dip"
android:layout_height="75dip"
android:id="#+id/dog1num1"
android:background="#drawable/num1"
android:clickable="true"
android:onClick="NumberOne"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="75dp"
android:scaleType="fitXY" />
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="75dip"
android:layout_height="75dip"
android:id="#+id/dog1num2"
android:background="#drawable/num2"
android:clickable="true"
android:onClick="NumberTwo"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="75dp"
android:scaleType="fitXY" />
</LinearLayout>

You need to wrap your imageview/textview combo in a LinearLayout. And you should set the imageButton using src, not background. Do it like this:
<?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:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Title" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/dogimage"
android:layout_width="150dip"
android:layout_height="150dip"
android:clickable="true"
android:onClick="sendProfile"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:src="#drawable/dogpic" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Timestamp 1" />
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/dog1num1"
android:layout_width="75dip"
android:layout_height="75dip"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:clickable="true"
android:onClick="NumberOne"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:src="#drawable/num1" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Timestamp 1" />
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/dog1num2"
android:layout_width="75dip"
android:layout_height="75dip"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:clickable="true"
android:onClick="NumberOne"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:src="#drawable/num2" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Problems with LinearLayout, views aren't resembling the preview in Graphical Layout on device

So I'm having a problem that is driving me crazy. Knowing the purpose of my app isn't important/relevant so I'll just paste my code from the xml file. The layout is a RelativeLayout, but the problem I'm having is inside of this LinearLayout.
Code:
<?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"
android:background="#drawable/background_orange"
android:id="#+id/rel_layout" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/layout_1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="false"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/component_1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:src="#drawable/source1"
/>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/component_2"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_above="#id/component_1"
android:src="#drawable/source2"
android:layout_alignRight="#id/component_1"
android:layout_marginRight="-50dip"
android:layout_marginBottom="-25dip"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/problemIsHere"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:orientation="horizontal"
>
<EditText
android:id="#+id/edit_text"
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:hint="What&apos;s your question?"
android:imeOptions="actionDone"
android:inputType="textCapSentences|textAutoComplete"
android:textSize="25sp"
android:layout_gravity="left"
android:textStyle="bold" />
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/image_button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginRight="5dip"
android:layout_weight="0"
android:layout_gravity="right"
android:background="#drawable/source3"
/>
</LinearLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_below="#id/problemIsHere"
android:gravity="center"
>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/image_view"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/source4"
android:onClick="computeUserInput" />
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/image_button0"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/image_view"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/image_view"
android:layout_marginLeft="-2dip"
android:background="#drawable/voice_recognition_touse"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
Again, this is nested inside of the parent, RelativeLayout. In the preview, when clicking on the "Graphical Layout" tab, this looks like exactly what I want; EditText to the left of a small ImageButton, with correct proportions and margins. However, when I run this on my device, the LinearLayout is REVERSED, meaning now that the EditText is to the RIGHT of the ImageButton. The proportions and margins are still accurate though. Does anyone know what is going wrong here?
Note: I've already cleaned and refreshed my project; this was ineffective. I've also tried removing the layout_gravity attributes, and that did nothing.
Thanks

Button on the left of a frame layout?

In a vertical linear layout, I have 2 textviews, then a button and then a frame layout.
I would like the button to be on the left of the frame layout. I tried putting the button in a relative layout, but how do I tell the frame layout to be on the right?
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/content_container_white"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/editText1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingLeft="30dp"
android:text="#string/t0"
android:textColor="#color/black"
android:textSize="30dp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/editText2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/t1"
android:textColor="#color/black" />
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/RelativeLayout1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/buybtn"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="left"
android:layout_marginLeft="30dp"
android:text="#string/buy_button" />
</RelativeLayout>
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|right"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp" >
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/videothumb"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|center_vertical"
android:src="#drawable/button_play_on" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/videothumbimage"
android:layout_width="380dp"
android:layout_height="170dp"
android:scaleType="centerCrop"
android:src="#drawable/demo_thumb_home" />
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>

You can do it by simply telling your FrameLayout android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/#+id/buybtn", but your FrameLayout must be inside a RelativeLayout too.
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/RelativeLayout1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/buybtn"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="left"
android:layout_marginLeft="30dp"
android:text="#string/buy_button" />
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|right"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/#+id/buybtn" >
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/videothumb"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|center_vertical"
android:src="#drawable/button_play_on" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/videothumbimage"
android:layout_width="380dp"
android:layout_height="170dp"
android:scaleType="centerCrop"
android:src="#drawable/demo_thumb_home" />
</FrameLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

Push FrameLayout into RelativeLayout or just put button and frame together in horizontal LinearLayout - what would be more simple
ps - kepp your code clean, use ctrl+shift+F (if using Eclipse) to auto-arrange it

Put your framelayout within Relativelayout and then set property align parent right.

The question makes no sense. From the documentation:
FrameLayout is designed to block out an area on the screen to display a single item.
Emphesis mine.
If you want your layout to contain more than one item, do not use a frame layout. Use something else.
Shachar

How do I achieve the following result using RelativeLayout?

Pictures: http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/1402/picse.png
How do I make the layout in Pic. 2 using RelativeLayout ONLY. Below is the xml layout of the first screenshot.
<?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">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/timer_textview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_marginTop="10dip"
android:textSize="30sp"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:text="#string/timer_start" />
<ListView
android:id="#+id/questions_listview"
android:layout_below="#id/timer_textview"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
<Button android:id="#+id/true_btn"
android:text="#string/true_option"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/false_btn"
android:text="#string/false_option"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/true_btn"
android:layout_alignBaseline="#id/true_btn"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</RelativeLayout>

You could use LinearLayout at bottom to achieve this. But you want to use RelativeLayout layout only so:
<RelativeLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" ... >
...
<View android:id="#+id/helper"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
<Button android:id="#+id/true_btn"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/helper"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/false_btn"
android:layout_alignBaseline="#id/true_btn"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/helper" />
</RelativeLayout>
Can't you really use nested layouts?

If you change the buttons to
<Button android:id="#+id/true_btn"
android:text="#string/true_option"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/false_btn"
android:text="#string/false_option"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/true_btn"
android:layout_alignBaseline="#id/true_btn"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
you use at least the full width although the false_btn gets all remaining space.
To increase the width of the first true_btn you could set the minWidth attribute - either use a fixed value or get the screen width and make the minWidth the half of it

Why are some of my views not aligned correctly at the bottom of my relative layout?

I have problems getting some of my views aligned in a relative layout that I use inside a row of my listview.
Here is a screenshot from the layout builder in Eclipse, this is what I think it should look like:
(source: janusz.de)
The next image is from the emulator. Now the TestTestTest View is at the top and covers the name and distance Textviews.
(source: janusz.de)
This is my layout:
<?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="fill_parent"
android:padding="4dip">
<ImageView android:id="#+id/logo" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:scaleType="centerInside" android:src="#drawable/icon"
android:layout_centerVertical="true" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:background="#color/green" />
<TextView android:id="#+id/distance" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Distance"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:paddingRight="4dip" android:background="#000000" />
<TextView android:id="#+id/name" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
style="#style/ListHeadText" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Name"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/distance" android:layout_toRightOf="#id/logo"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/distance" android:gravity="clip_horizontal"
android:lines="1" android:paddingLeft="4dip" android:background="#color/red" />
<TextView android:id="#+id/number" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Number"
android:paddingRight="4dip" android:layout_alignRight="#id/distance"
android:background="#color/darkred" android:layout_below="#id/distance" />
<TextView android:id="#+id/subcategory" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Subcategory"
android:paddingLeft="4dip" android:layout_alignLeft="#id/name"
android:lines="1" android:gravity="clip_horizontal"
android:layout_below="#id/distance" android:background="#color/green" />
<TextView android:id="#+id/test" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="TestTestTest"
android:paddingLeft="4dip"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" android:gravity="bottom"
android:background="#color/red" />
Shouldnt align_parent_bottom put the view at the bottom of the cell in the list?

Try adding android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" as well; sometimes Views aren't displayed properly if it can't anchor the view with at least 2 points. Also, is this RelativeLayout used within a ListView? If so, you might find you have some difficulty getting it to look right. There was another question where someone was having a problem where the RelativeLayout looked right on its own, but not once it was included as part of a ListView. We didn't manage to figure out what went wrong so he had to use nested LinearLayouts instead.