I am trying to make a scroll view that has a nested relativeLayout view. The realative layout has a background image. When the realativeLayout is the only layout the background image is the size I want it to be.
When I add scroll view it makes the image bigger and I am not sure why and what properties I need to set to fix it.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<RelativeLayout android:id="#+id/mainLayout"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/background2"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<TextView android:id="#+id/txtApplicationTitle"
android:text="My Application"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
android:textSize="15dp"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/txtAbout" />
<TextView android:id="#+id/txtPrivacyHeader"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/PrivacyHeader"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="21dp"
android:layout_marginTop="94dp" />
<TextView android:id="#+id/Privacy"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:text="#string/Privacy"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_below="#+id/txtPrivacyHeader"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>
// this is what I get (you can't tell but it is scrollable)
(source: gyazo.com)
// this how I want the SrcollView to look(this is the exact same code as above just without the ScrollView wrapping it)
(source: gyazo.com)
See how the top part has all of sudden grown so much.
Your ScrollView has its height set to wrap_content and your RelativeLayout has its height set to fill_parent. That means your ScrollView is going to expand to the entire view.
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I got following simple Layout. The problem can be reproduced in the android studio designer:
<?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">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/x"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginEnd="#dimen/margin_small"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/margin_small"
android:text="#string/long_string"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"/>
<CheckBox
android:id="#+id/y"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/x"
android:layout_toEndOf="#+id/x"
android:layout_centerVertical="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
This layout works fine if the text length of the textview is short. The checkbox is placed on the right of the textview. But if the text gets long and even wraps maybe, then the checkbox is pushed out of the view. It is not visible anymore. I would like that the checkbox is always visible on the right of the textview even, if it fills the whole width of the screen.
I tried to rewrite the layout with a LinearLayout which doesn't work either.
<?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="horizontal">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/x"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginEnd="#dimen/margin_small"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/margin_small"
android:text="#string/long_string"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"/>
<CheckBox
android:id="#+id/y"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
</LinearLayout>
Do you know a trick to to achieve this with relative layout? I would somehow expect this behaviour from relative layout by default. Thanks ;)
This is working for me: make checkBox alignParentRight and make TextView toLeftOf it:
<?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">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/x"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/y"
android:text="This is very-very-very looooooooooooong stringgggg, very-very, long-long"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"/>
<CheckBox
android:id="#+id/y"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>
Edit. You can include this Relative Layout into other (parent) layout:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:gravity="left">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/x"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/y"
android:text="this is veryyyyy yyyyyyyyyy yyyyyy yyy loooooo oooooooo ooon nnggggg gggg striiii iiiiin gggggg ggggg ggggggg ggg"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"/>
<CheckBox
android:id="#+id/y"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
It's also working. If you put android:gravity="left" into Relative layout, it will locate its content on the left side.
One way out would be to put the textview and checkbox in a linear layout with orientation horizontal. Set width of checkbox to be whatever you want (a constant) and the width of textbox to be 0dp and layout_weight of 1.
You should put the property layout_weight to make your views (TextView and Checkbox) have a deff space in the screen instead of use a hard value
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/x"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0.9"
android:layout_marginEnd="#dimen/margin_small"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/margin_small"
android:text="#string/long_string"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"/>
<CheckBox
android:id="#+id/y"
android:layout_weight="0.1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
</LinearLayout>
I guess the desired layout is not possible by default. I tried to do this using RelativeLayout, LinearLayout and TableLayout. It is technically understandable that the these layout do not support that behaviour. The relative layout would have to explicitly respect the case that an element on the left or right is minimal visible inside the parent even it is placed to left or right. Another solution would be if the table layout would allow a column to consume the rest of the space but respects min width of other columns as well.
For my case i wrote a workaround. I used the initial relative layout of my question but set a max width to the textview using following calculation:
DisplayMetrics displaymetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
context.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(displaymetrics);
int displayWidth = displaymetrics.widthPixels;
That guarantees the checkbox to be visible. I know the solution could be hardly possible in scenarios where the given layout is embedded in a more complex layout.
I have a relative layout that has a background image. I set the height and width to wrap_content. Everything works fine. I want to place an image at the topRight corner of the relative layout. So I use alignParentRight = true. The problem that the relative layout now stretches horizontally to fill the screen.
I have done so much reading and I came across this "circular dependency pitfall"
From the RelativeLayout doc:
Class Overview
A Layout where the positions of the children can be described in
relation to each other or to the parent.
Note that you cannot have a circular dependency between the size of
the RelativeLayout and the position of its children. For example, you
cannot have a RelativeLayout whose height is set to WRAP_CONTENT and a
child set to ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM
Here is my XML sample
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:background="#drawable/popup_b"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/ibCloseDialog"
android:background="#null"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:alignParentRight="true"
android:src="#drawable/close" />
</RelativeLayout>
And that's exactly what I am facing. Is there any recommendation or a way to achieve what I want? I want the the Relativelayout to be as big as the background image and the image at the top right corner of that.
Thank you so much
Have you tried setting gravity to right?
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:background="#drawable/popup_b"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="right" >
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/ibCloseDialog"
android:background="#null"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:alignParentRight="true"
android:src="#drawable/close" />
</RelativeLayout>
I have already faced these problem and i have been solved this way.
try this may help u.
<?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" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/backGroundimage"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/backGroundimage" >
</ImageView>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/ibCloseDialog"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/backGroundimage"
android:background="#drawable/ibCloseDialog" >
</ImageView>
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:background="#drawable/popup_b"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/ibCloseDialog"
android:background="#null"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:alignParentRight="true"
android:src="#drawable/close" />
Try using this code.
Here I height and width of RelativeLayout is set to fill_parent.
In a layout resource XML, I have 3 RelativeLayout(s) which are inside a main RelativeLayout. The view will be shown vertically. These 3 RelativeLayout() are set next to each other, and I want them to fill the whole screen, doesnt matter what will be the screen size. My, layout view:
<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"
android:background="#drawable/backg"
>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/top_mr_image"
android:src="#drawable/temp" />
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/r1"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_below="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:background="#drawable/r1bg"
android:layout_weight="1"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/txt_mr_right"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/txt_mr_right"
android:layout_marginTop="39dp"
android:text="S"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_below="#id/textView1"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/txt_mr_right"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/txt_mr_right"
android:text="T"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/r2"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/r1"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/r1"
android:layout_weight="1" >
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/r3"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/r2"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/r2"
android:layout_weight="1" >
</RelativeLayout>
I set weight=1 and layout_width=0dp for each relativeLayout and this technique works with buttons, I thought the same will be with relativeLayout, seems my thoughts were wrong. Any idea?
UPD1: I have added an image of what I would like to have
RelativeLayout does not pay attention to android:layout_weight. (That's a property of LinearLayout.LayoutParams, but not of RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.)
You should be able to get the layout you want with a much simpler view hierarchy. It's not clear what you are trying to do, since the last two RelativeLayouts are empty. If you need a purely vertical organization, I'd suggest using LinearLayout instead of RelativeLayout.
EDIT Based on your edit, it looks like you want a horizontal layout of three compound views, each one clickable. I think something like the following will work:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
<!-- First column -->
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/firstColumn"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="..." />
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:text="text 1"
. . . />
</LinearLayout>
<!-- Second column -->
<LinearLayout . . . >
. . .
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
If the contents of the buttons aren't correct, you can replace the second-level LinearLayout views with RelativeLayout if that helps organize the layout better.
RelativeLayouts do not support weight. You need to use a LinearLayout as a parent container if you want to use weights.
Solution is very simple. I have been looking for weight distribution in relative layout.
It's a small trick for all these kind situations.
Use LinearLayout with android:orientation="horizontal"
You can use Horizontally oriented LinearLayout Manager in the Recycler View, and place each RelativeLayout in each item, of its Adapter.
The Link: How to build a Horizontal ListView with RecyclerView?
If your RelativeLayouts are set to a fixed width and height, that is to the size of the Screen, that you can get from DisplayMatrics, that will be OK.
The Link: Get Screen width and height
If the contents of your RelativeLayouts are different, then you can use getItemViewType() method.
Please see: How to create RecyclerView with multiple view type?
Happy Coding :-)
I have posted the exact layout below. I want to show an image and text vertically centered inside the footer. I have applied:
android:gravity="center_vertical|center"
To both the LinearLayout containing these elements and the TextView inside but nevertheless the whole line image and text appears way too far towards the top of the footer. I want it centered vertically but instead it is in the top 30 % of the footer at all times.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/someMessageMessage"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:visibility="gone"
android:layout_margin="10dip"/>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:gravity="center_vertical|center"
android:paddingBottom="2dip"
android:paddingTop="16dip" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/myImg"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="16dip"
android:paddingTop="3dip"
android:src="#drawable/picimg" >
</ImageView>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/myMessage"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
android:layout_marginRight="10dip"
android:gravity="center_vertical|center"
android:text="This message appears way to close to the top of the footer. It should be along with the image in the center:"
android:textStyle="bold"/>
</LinearLayout>
<Button
android:id="#+id/myButton"
style="#style/mybuttonstyle"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="10dip"
android:text="#string/lbl_send"
android:visibility="gone" />
</LinearLayout>
After seeing your layout it seems you haven't given android:paddingTop to your TextView. Thats why its appearing to the top.
Moreover you can also remove android:paddingTop from ImageView if that suits to your layout.
Hope that helps.
How big is the image? I think the problem is in your second LinearLayout. You're setting the height to be "wrap_content" so that means that it will only be as big as the biggest child. If the image and the text are about the same height, then it won't seem as if anything is getting centered. You can test this theory by forcing the height to be something big enough.
I'm new to android development... while making my application layout i want a button to remain at the very bottom of the screen while a scroll view is placed above it. I am unable to do this i was using the size of the scroll view as 430dp so that it works but when i change the orientation of the screen this does not work as 400dp is bigger than the screen.
how do i make it so that the button stays at the bottom irresepective of the screen orientation ?
:/
Set the ScrollView's layout_height to fill_parrent and layout_weight to 1 and the Button's height to wrap_content.
You could go with this
android:gravity="bottom"
This should always push your element to the bottom of its container.
But it'd more helpful if you'd post up your layout XML.
Here's a real world example of precisely what you're asking.
In this layout, I have a header at the top, a list view taking all the space below it and a button to clear (cancelled, failed, finished) elements of the list view, then right at the bottom I have a custom control showing a toolbar.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><LinearLayout android:id="#+id/layout" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<LinearLayout android:id="#+id/browsePeerHeader"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="70sp"
android:layout_marginBottom="2sp"
android:layout_gravity="top"
android:background="#drawable/background_barbed_wire"
>
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/frostwire_sphere"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:src="#drawable/icon"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_margin="3sp"
android:background="#00000000"/>
<TextView android:id="#+id/browsePeerTitle" android:textSize="30sp"
android:text="Downloads"
android:textColor="#ffffffff" android:textStyle="bold"
android:shadowColor="#ff000000"
android:shadowDx="1.0"
android:shadowDy="1.0"
android:shadowRadius="4.0"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingTop="10sp"
android:gravity="left|center_vertical"/>
</LinearLayout>
<ListView android:id="#+id/ListViewTransfers"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="2sp"
android:layout_marginBottom="2sp"
android:layout_weight="1"></ListView>
<Button android:id="#+id/ButtonClearFinished" margin="2sp"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
<com.frostwire.android.views.FrostWireStatusBar
android:id="#+id/FrostWireStatusBar" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom" /></LinearLayout>
Here's a screenshot
The trick is basically to have the list view use all the space left in the layout that contains it, you don't even have to tell it to fill_parent, just with android:layout_weight="1 it should work.