I have an ImageView which has layout_width of fill_parent. I want to get the width of this ImageView in order to calculate the size of the thumbnail. The problem is that imageView.getWidth() and imageView.getHeight() both return 0 because the layout hasn't been sat yet.
My question is, does the ImageView has some kind of SizeChanged event or something of the kind? How do I react as soon as the ImageView width has been established?
Update:
I solved my problem this way. As I actually only needed the width of the ImageView which is set to fill_parent, what I actually needed was the device window size:
DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
int targetW = metrics.widthPixels;
You can hook into a number of View tree events using a ViewTreeObserver. Specifically, either an OnGlobalLayoutListener or an OnPreDrawListener should work for you depending on what you are doing with the size.
Here's an example of using a ViewTreeObserverto get a View's width once everything has been laid out:
final ImageView myImageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.image);
final ViewTreeObserver observer = myImageView.getViewTreeObserver();
observer.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
#Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
int height = myImageView.getHeight();
// Do something with the height
// Remove the layout listener so we don't waste time on future passes
observer.removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this);
}
});
According to this post's answer:
ImageView.getWidth() returns 0
You will need to call it from the following function:
public void onWindowFocusChanged(boolean hasFocus)
This is because the window has not yet been attached and as you have noticed your imageview will have no dimensions yet.
I have the a LinearLayout with width set in xml as fill_parent , now i need its width at runtime programatically. So i did this:
LinearLayout layoutGet=(LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.GameField1);
LayoutParams layParamsGet= layoutGet.getLayoutParams();
int width=layParamsGet.width;
But width value on debugging was found to be -1, anybody with idea why can't i get the exact width at runtime for LinearLayout with fill_parent set in layout xml.
I got a simple approach working.
myLayout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.my_layout);
myLayout.post(new Runnable()
{
#Override
public void run()
{
Log.i("TEST", "Layout width : "+ myLayout.getWidth());
}
});
Jens Vossnack's approach mentioned below works fine. However, I found that the onGlobalLayout() method of GlobalLayoutListener is called repeatedly, which may not be appropriate in certain cases.
You can try to listen to the globalLayout event, and get the width in there. You probably get the -1 because you are trying to get the width before the views are layed-out.
vto.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
#Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
//Do it here
LinearLayout layoutGet=(LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.GameField1);
LayoutParams layParamsGet= layoutGet.getLayoutParams();
int width=layParamsGet.width;
removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(layoutGet, this); // Assuming layoutGet is the View which you got the ViewTreeObserver from
}
});
#SuppressLint("NewApi")
public static void removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(View v, ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener listener){
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 16) v.getViewTreeObserver().removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(listener);
else v.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(listener);
}
(vto is the view you want to get the width of)
If you look at the value for FILL_PARENT (you should be using MATCH_PARENT since FILL_PARENT is now deprecated) you will notice the value for it is -1. LayoutParams are simply attributes for how your view should look. Once the view is inflated and looks the way the params specify, the view does not go back and change those Params to reflect the actual values of the view (width/height/etc).
If you wanted to get the actual width of your view you would have to call getWidth() on your view once the layout has been inflated and displayed. Calling getWidth() before your layout has been displayed will result in 0.
LinearLayout layoutGet=(LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.GameField1);
int width = layoutGet.getWidth();
First of all, you should use match_parent instead of fill_parent (deprecated).
When you do int width=layParamsGet.width;, you take the right result which is -1 corresponding at fill_parent.
If you wan't to get the real width, you need to wait onMesure() call and use
LinearLayout layoutGet=(LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.GameField1);
int width = layoutGet. getMeasuredHeight();
layoutGet.getWidth() should work out
I want to get a layout's width in pixels.
I tried this:
LinearLayout galleryContainer = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.galleryContainerLayout);
int galleryWidth= galleryContainer.getLayoutParams().width;
if i toast out galleryWidth, it is says "-1".
I also tried
galleryContainer.getWidth()
but it is gives 0 at the first time, then 480 (the actual size) at second time, so it is like i got the pixels BEFORE my layout infiltrate its size.
What the hell?
How can i really get a layouts width in pixels ? Or some exact values like dip?
Use measure() before call getWidth()
galleryContainer.measure(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);
The layout is inflated but not yet drawn.In order to get width or height, you will have to use the below method.
#Override
public void onWindowFocusChanged(boolean hasFocus)
{
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
super.onWindowFocusChanged(hasFocus);
System.out.println("...Width..."+galleryContainer.getWidth());
}
Not sure for you but we can code something like this too, check out if it helps.
Display display = ((WindowManager)context.getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay();
int width = display.getWidth();
int height = display.getHeight();
Have fun.
How do I compute the width and height of an inflated View if the parent is a PopupWindow, not a ViewGroup? I cannot use LayoutInflator.inflate(int resId, ViewGroup parent, attachToRoot boolean) because PopupWindow is not a ViewGroup, so I use LayoutInflator.inflate(int resId) instead, but after that I getWidth() and getHeight() return zero :(
I need to resize the PopupWindow to fit the View, but cannot do so until the View has a parent. Do I have a chicken-and-egg problem?
By the way the View is a subclass of RelativeView so calculating it manually is essentially out of the question.
Thanks in advance,
Barry
Actually popupWindow supports "wrap content" constans, so if you want popup be exact as your view - use this:
popup = new PopupWindow(context);
popup.setWidth(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
popup.setHeight(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
--other options--
getWidth() and getHeight() returns zero, because view have size only after drawing on the screen. You can try to get values from LayoutParams of inflated view.
If there is fill_parent value - you are in egg-chicken situation.
If there is values in px or dp you can manually calculate size in pixels:
Math.round(TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP, dpSize, context.getResources().getDisplayMetrics()));
If there is wrap_content value - you can use view.measure() method - all children and view itself will be measured, and you can get view.getMeasuredHeight() and view.getMeasuredWidth().
As Jin35 said, your problem was that the view's width and height haven't been calculated yet...the dimensions aren't calculated until after the layout pass.
Using a fixed width and height from dimension resources (e.g. from a values/dimens.xml file) is one workaround, since then you don't need to wait for the view's onMeasure to occur -- you can get the value of the same dimension resource you used for the view you're interested in, and use that.
A better solution is to just delay your calculations until after the onMeasure happens. You can do that by overriding onMeasure, but a more elegant solution is to use a temporary OnGlobalLayoutListener like this:
View popup = LayoutInflator.inflate(int resId);
if(popup != null) {
// set up an observer that will be called once the listView's layout is ready
android.view.ViewTreeObserver viewTreeObserver = listView.getViewTreeObserver();
if (viewTreeObserver.isAlive()) {
viewTreeObserver.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new android.view.ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
#Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
// This will be called once the layout is finished, prior to displaying.
View popup = findViewById(resId);
if(popup != null) {
int width = popup.getMeasuredWidth();
int height = popup.getMeasuredHeight();
// don't need the listener any more
popup.getViewTreeObserver().removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);
}
}
});
}
}
Please try this:
Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
Log.e("", "" + display.getHeight() + " " + display.getWidth());
I have a view made up of TableLayout, TableRow and TextView. I want it to look like a grid. I need to get the height and width of this grid. The methods getHeight() and getWidth() always return 0. This happens when I format the grid dynamically and also when I use an XML version.
How to retrieve the dimensions for a view?
Here is my test program I used in Debug to check the results:
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TableLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class appwig extends Activity {
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.maindemo); //<- includes the grid called "board"
int vh = 0;
int vw = 0;
//Test-1 used the xml layout (which is displayed on the screen):
TableLayout tl = (TableLayout) findViewById(R.id.board);
tl = (TableLayout) findViewById(R.id.board);
vh = tl.getHeight(); //<- getHeight returned 0, Why?
vw = tl.getWidth(); //<- getWidth returned 0, Why?
//Test-2 used a simple dynamically generated view:
TextView tv = new TextView(this);
tv.setHeight(20);
tv.setWidth(20);
vh = tv.getHeight(); //<- getHeight returned 0, Why?
vw = tv.getWidth(); //<- getWidth returned 0, Why?
} //eof method
} //eof class
I believe the OP is long gone, but in case this answer is able to help future searchers, I thought I'd post a solution that I have found. I have added this code into my onCreate() method:
EDITED: 07/05/11 to include code from comments:
final TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.image_test);
ViewTreeObserver vto = tv.getViewTreeObserver();
vto.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
#Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
LayerDrawable ld = (LayerDrawable)tv.getBackground();
ld.setLayerInset(1, 0, tv.getHeight() / 2, 0, 0);
ViewTreeObserver obs = tv.getViewTreeObserver();
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
obs.removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this);
} else {
obs.removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);
}
}
});
First I get a final reference to my TextView (to access in the onGlobalLayout() method). Next, I get the ViewTreeObserver from my TextView, and add an OnGlobalLayoutListener, overriding onGLobalLayout (there does not seem to be a superclass method to invoke here...) and adding my code which requires knowing the measurements of the view into this listener. All works as expected for me, so I hope that this is able to help.
I'll just add an alternative solution, override your activity's onWindowFocusChanged method and you will be able to get the values of getHeight(), getWidth() from there.
#Override
public void onWindowFocusChanged (boolean hasFocus) {
// the height will be set at this point
int height = myEverySoTallView.getMeasuredHeight();
}
You are trying to get width and height of an elements, that weren't drawn yet.
If you use debug and stop at some point, you'll see, that your device screen is still empty, that's because your elements weren't drawn yet, so you can't get width and height of something, that doesn't yet exist.
And, I might be wrong, but setWidth() is not always respected, Layout lays out it's children and decides how to measure them (calling child.measure()), so If you set setWidth(), you are not guaranteed to get this width after element will be drawn.
What you need, is to use getMeasuredWidth() (the most recent measure of your View) somewhere after the view was actually drawn.
Look into Activity lifecycle for finding the best moment.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#ActivityLifecycle
I believe a good practice is to use OnGlobalLayoutListener like this:
yourView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
#Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
if (!mMeasured) {
// Here your view is already layed out and measured for the first time
mMeasured = true; // Some optional flag to mark, that we already got the sizes
}
}
});
You can place this code directly in onCreate(), and it will be invoked when views will be laid out.
Use the View's post method like this
post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
Log.d(TAG, "width " + MyView.this.getMeasuredWidth());
}
});
I tried to use onGlobalLayout() to do some custom formatting of a TextView, but as #George Bailey noticed, onGlobalLayout() is indeed called twice: once on the initial layout path, and second time after modifying the text.
View.onSizeChanged() works better for me because if I modify the text there, the method is called only once (during the layout pass). This required sub-classing of TextView, but on API Level 11+ View. addOnLayoutChangeListener() can be used to avoid sub-classing.
One more thing, in order to get correct width of the view in View.onSizeChanged(), the layout_width should be set to match_parent, not wrap_content.
Are you trying to get sizes in a constructor, or any other method that is run BEFORE you get the actual picture?
You won't be getting any dimensions before all components are actually measured (since your xml doesn't know about your display size, parents positions and whatever)
Try getting values after onSizeChanged() (though it can be called with zero), or just simply waiting when you'll get an actual image.
As F.X. mentioned, you can use an OnLayoutChangeListener to the view that you want to track itself
view.addOnLayoutChangeListener(new View.OnLayoutChangeListener() {
#Override
public void onLayoutChange(View v, int left, int top, int right, int bottom, int oldLeft, int oldTop, int oldRight, int oldBottom) {
// Make changes
}
});
You can remove the listener in the callback if you only want the initial layout.
I guess this is what you need to look at: use onSizeChanged() of your view. Here is an EXTENDED code snippet on how to use onSizeChanged() to get your layout's or view's height and width dynamically http://syedrakibalhasan.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-get-width-and-height-dimensions.html
ViewTreeObserver and onWindowFocusChanged() are not so necessary at all.
If you inflate the TextView as layout and/or put some content in it and set LayoutParams then you can use getMeasuredHeight() and getMeasuredWidth().
BUT you have to be careful with LinearLayouts (maybe also other ViewGroups). The issue there is, that you can get the width and height after onWindowFocusChanged() but if you try to add some views in it, then you can't get that information until everything have been drawn. I was trying to add multiple TextViews to LinearLayouts to mimic a FlowLayout (wrapping style) and so couldn't use Listeners. Once the process is started, it should continue synchronously. So in such case, you might want to keep the width in a variable to use it later, as during adding views to layout, you might need it.
Even though the proposed solution works, it might not be the best solution for every case because based on the documentation for ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener
Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when the global layout state or the visibility of views within the view tree changes.
which means it gets called many times and not always the view is measured (it has its height and width determined)
An alternative is to use ViewTreeObserver.OnPreDrawListener which gets called only when the view is ready to be drawn and has all of its measurements.
final TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.image_test);
ViewTreeObserver vto = tv.getViewTreeObserver();
vto.addOnPreDrawListener(new OnPreDrawListener() {
#Override
public void onPreDraw() {
tv.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnPreDrawListener(this);
// Your view will have valid height and width at this point
tv.getHeight();
tv.getWidth();
}
});
Height and width are zero because view has not been created by the time you are requesting it's height and width . One simplest solution is
view.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
view.getHeight(); //height is ready
view.getWidth(); //width is ready
}
});
This method is good as compared to other methods as it is short and crisp.
You should rather look at View lifecycle: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html Generally you should not know width and height for sure until your activity comes to onResume state.
You can use a broadcast that is called in OnResume ()
For example:
int vh = 0;
int vw = 0;
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.maindemo); //<- includes the grid called "board"
registerReceiver(new BroadcastReceiver() {
#Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
TableLayout tl = (TableLayout) findViewById(R.id.board);
tl = (TableLayout) findViewById(R.id.board);
vh = tl.getHeight();
vw = tl.getWidth();
}
}, new IntentFilter("Test"));
}
protected void onResume() {
super.onResume();
Intent it = new Intent("Test");
sendBroadcast(it);
}
You can not get the height of a view in OnCreate (), onStart (), or even in onResume () for the reason that kcoppock responded
Simple Response: This worked for me with no Problem.
It seems the key is to ensure that the View has focus before you getHeight etc. Do this by using the hasFocus() method, then using getHeight() method in that order. Just 3 lines of code required.
ImageButton myImageButton1 =(ImageButton)findViewById(R.id.imageButton1);
myImageButton1.hasFocus();
int myButtonHeight = myImageButton1.getHeight();
Log.d("Button Height: ", ""+myButtonHeight );//Not required
Hope it helps.
Use getMeasuredWidth() and getMeasuredHeight() for your view.
Developer guide: View
CORRECTION:
I found out that the above solution is terrible. Especially when your phone is slow.
And here, I found another solution:
calculate out the px value of the element, including the margins and paddings:
dp to px:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/6327095/1982712
or dimens.xml to px:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/16276351/1982712
sp to px:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/9219417/1982712 (reverse the solution)
or dimens to px:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/16276351/1982712
and that's it.