I'm having trouble when showing a button next to the search box. I'm using an auto complete text view and i don't know if this is due to the auto complete text view. How can i fix this. Here's what i got so far:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>
<AutoCompleteTextView
android:id="#+id/autocomplete"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="text"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/search_button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Go"
/>
</LinearLayout>
To fix this, just add the tag android:layout_weight=1 to your AutoCompleteTextView.
This happens because android noticed you set the layout_width to fill_parent on your AutoCompleteTextView, and then it has no space for the Button left. Setting the weight to 1 means the textview will be "generous" and give as much space to any other components as they request, which in this case is limited to the width of the Button after is wrapped.
You are filling the parent width with your AutoCompleteTextView (thus pushing the Button out of screen width). Try to change this
<AutoCompleteTextView
android:id="#+id/autocomplete"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="text"
/>
into this
<AutoCompleteTextView
android:id="#+id/autocomplete"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="text"
/>
And your Button should become visible. Here is a nice resource conserning layouts: Android Developer | Declaring Layouts
Related
I have a keyword search option with EditView and a button in my android app, which in ADT looks perfect.
But when i run the program, the EditView expand beyond the viewing area and search button disappears because it goes out of page.
Xml for this is:
<TableRow
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/detail_ll"
style="#style/search_bg_style"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<EditText
android:id="#+id/keyword_detail"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0.7"
android:ems="10"
android:hint="#string/keyword" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button_search"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0.3"
android:text="#string/search" />
</LinearLayout>
</TableRow>
Please help me in getting this in viewing area..
can you post the entire xml?
i mean with the
<TableLayout />
main tag
try setting android
android:layout_weight="1"
for both
or try android:layout_weight="1.5"
for edit text and
android:layout_weight="0.5"
for the button
I think you should make the android:layout_width="wrap_content" to android:layout_width="match_parent" or any fixed width (in dps) in the TableRow element.
layout_weight attribute divides a pre-known space according to its weight which is not present in this case.
Here you have to TableRow and LinearLayout height MatchParent and
give Weightsum="1" to LinearLayout it will fixed your problem and also remove android:ems property from Edittext
Hope this Help you.
I am developing an application for Android.
I have a simple layout. A CheckBox, a Spinner and a Button at the top, a two line EditText at the Bottom which is displayed when the CheckBox is checked and another EditText which covers the rest of the space in the middle.
The problem is that when I am writing on the big EditText, sometimes the layout goes out of the screen on top and as a result I can't see what I am writing.
As a solution, I can set my layout to resize when the keyboard shows (using android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" on the manifest.xml) but that won't be good since I do not want the 2 EditTexts to share the space left on the screen.
My layout code follows:
<?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">
<Button android:id="#+id/button"
android:text="Push"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"/>
<CheckBox android:id="#+id/check_box"
android:text="Check"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" />
<Spinner android:id="#+id/spinner"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
<EditText android:id="#+id/text_2"
android:hint="#string/hint_2"
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
android:maxLines="2"
android:gravity="top"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:visibility="gone" />
<EditText android:id="#+id/text_1"
android:hint="#string/hint_1"
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
android:gravity="top"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_below="#id/spinner"
android:layout_above="#id/text_2"
android:layout_alignWithParentIfMissing="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
P.S. This thing happens only on my Wildfire and very rare on the Emulator. A friend's Desire HD didn't have any problem at all. I don;t know if this makes any difference...
Thanks in advance for your help.
Antonis
I have the exact same problem. I've tested and this only happens with EditText in multiline mode and when SoftInputMode is set to adjustPan. This is most probably an Android bug.
The only solution I've found is to remove adjustPan.
I'm trying to implement a login view where several EditTexts and a logo are displayed on the screen with a ButtonBar at the bottom, something like this:
alt text http://russellhaering.com/media/addAccount.png
The problem is that on very small screens, especially when they are rotated sideways, the entire main view doesn't fit onto the screen.
I currently have
<?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:background="#234C59" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:paddingTop="5dip"
android:paddingLeft="15dip"
android:paddingRight="15dip"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/logo"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:scaleType="fitCenter"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:src="#drawable/logo" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/input_email"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="10dip"
android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
android:singleLine="true"
android:hint="Username or email" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/input_password"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop=""
android:inputType="textPassword"
android:singleLine="true"
android:hint="Password" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/buttonbar_login"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:orientation="horizontal"
style="#android:style/ButtonBar" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button_signup"
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Sign Up" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button_login"
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Log In" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
I've tried encapsulating the first LinnearLayout in a ScrollView that looks like this:
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<!-- Linear Layout Here -->
</ScrollView>
But that introduces two problems:
The ScrollView doesn't scroll, even on screens where the data doesn't all fit
The ButtonBar floats on top of the onscreen keyboard, obscuring even more of the screen when the keyboard comes up.
Everything worked great when I had the buttons inside the ScrollView, but now that I have them in the ButtonBar I'm having a lot of trouble figuring this out.
It turned out that the solution required two steps:
The inability to scroll was a result of the ScrollView being behind the Button Bar. To fix this, I defined the ScrollView below the Button Bar, then used android:layout_above="#id/buttonbar_login" to force the ScrollView to reside entirely above the Button Bar.
Apparently when the onscreen keyboard is opened, if you have a ScrollView it will be resized allowing the Button Bar to float up with the keyboard. To fix this I modified the manifest and added android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" to prevent the ScrollView from resizing.
If your use case supports hiding of the button bar in landscape orientation you can check Resources.getSystem().getConfiguration().orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE and set the button bar to View.GONE.
You also probably need to set android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" on the <activity> in your manifest file. Android will only put it in adjustResize automatically when the root layout is a ScrollView (iirc).
My project was working fine, when suddenly the text on my buttons was being displayed vertically. By which I mean instead of map_infobutton displaying
Info
it was displaying
I
n
with the f and o beyond the bounds of the button, even though I have specified height=wrap_content in the TableLayout containing the buttons.
It appears fine in the Layout tab in eclipse, and only appears vertical in the emulator (not tried on target hardware)
getPaddingLeft for one of the buttons returns 11 at various points in the code. Not sure where it gets that from, but the spacing looks bigger than that anyway. I did have three buttons and took one away, but the problem existed with both two and three buttons.
My layout is:
<?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">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/map_header"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:paddingTop="8px"
android:paddingBottom="8px"
android:gravity="center"
android:textColor="#color/header_foreground"
android:background="#color/header_background"
android:text="#string/map_header"/>
<TableLayout
android:id="#+id/map_footer"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:paddingTop="4px"
android:paddingLeft="2px"
android:paddingRight="2px"
android:stretchColumns="*"
android:textColor="#color/footer_foreground"
android:background="#color/footer_background">
<TableRow>
<Button
android:id="#+id/map_infobutton"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/map_infobutton" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/map_selectbutton"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/map_selectbutton" />
</TableRow>
</TableLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/map_selectiondetails"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="#id/map_footer"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:gravity="center"
android:textColor="#color/main_foreground"
android:background="#color/main_background" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/map_selectionname"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingRight="4px"
android:textColor="#color/main_foreground"
android:background="#color/main_background"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/map_selectiondistance"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingLeft="4px"
android:paddingRight="4px"
android:textColor="#color/main_foreground"
android:background="#color/main_background"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/map_selectionvar1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingLeft="4px"
android:paddingRight="4px"
android:textColor="#color/main_foreground"
android:background="#color/main_background"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/map_selectionvar2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingLeft="4px"
android:paddingRight="4px"
android:textColor="#color/main_foreground"
android:background="#color/main_background"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/map_selectionvar3"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingLeft="4px"
android:textColor="#color/main_foreground"
android:background="#color/main_background"/>
</LinearLayout>
<SurfaceView
android:id="#+id/map_map"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_above="#id/map_selectiondetails"
android:layout_below="#id/map_header"
android:clickable="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>
Any ideas? Also if you have any comments on how I'm creating the layout, as I'm new to this and it seems like there are a lot of options available, but I'm trying to make it as simple as possible.
I had a similar problem.
I see that you have multiple buttons that you want to have the same width, so you specify the button's width as "0px" and the weight as "1". This is exactly what I did.
When I set the button text within the XML file, things look fine. However, I have one button that changes is text depending on whether a process is running or not. In my case, it is similar to the situation where a button toggles from "Start..." to "Stop..." After the text changes, it prints vertically and only the top one or two letters of each button are shown.
After reading your post, it occurred to me that, perhaps, the text was being set before the button width had been determined, and then not updated once the button width changes according to the "weight".
I modified it such that in each button, it now reads:
android:layout_width="fill_parent" instead of "0px"
In theory, this should have the same effect. However, in practice, the button width is adjusted before the text is updated. The behaviour is now correct.
Rob
I need to show a large number of EditText controls on a screen, each of which will only allow entering 0-2 digits. The default EditText size is too wide for me to show enough EditText controls on a screen, but I have been unable to figure out how to make them narrower. I have tried the following attributes in
XML:
android:maxLength="2"
android:layout_width="20dip"
android:maxWidth="20px"
android:ems="2"
android:maxEms="2"
So the question is: how can EditText be made smaller than default?
Try this way instead, shows the difference. Use the layout_width with the specified width.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<EditText
android:width="10dip"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/hello"
/>
<EditText
android:layout_width="40dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/hello"
android:maxLength="2"
/>
</LinearLayout>
Hey once you try this,it may work.......
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
In case you end up on this page to search how to achieve the same in Java code..
txtSample.setFilters(new InputFilter[]{new InputFilter.LengthFilter(2)});
When in a table, as you describe, android:layout_gravity="left" will collapse the EditText to to the stated size of the EditText