<?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"
>
<TextView
android:text="Title"
android:id="#+id/TextView01"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="30px"
android:textStyle="bold"
>
</TextView>
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="60px">
<Button
android:text="Choose a Story"
android:id="#+id/choose"
android:layout_width="150px"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:layout_marginBottom="1px">
</Button>
<Button
android:text="Info"
android:id="#+id/info"
android:layout_width="150px"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:layout_marginBottom="1px">
</Button>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
In this code, as you can see, there is a title, 2 linear layouts, and 2 buttons that are inside a linear layout. What I'm trying to do is center the 2 buttons. No matter what I do, I can never get the 2 buttons to be centered at the bottom with a height of 60px.
In the end I'm trying to make the text centered both vertically and horizontally, and have the 2 buttons on the bottom centered horizontally. What do I need to change?
Heres a picture of what it looks like in the Layout Editor.
On your inner linear layout, set the layout_gravity.
Here's one solution
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<TextView
android:text="Title"
android:id="#+id/TextView01"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="30dip"
android:textStyle="bold"
/>
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="60dip"
android:layout_gravity="bottom|center_horizontal"
android:layout_marginBottom="1dip"
>
<Button
android:text="Choose a Story"
android:id="#+id/choose"
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
/>
<Button
android:text="Info"
android:id="#+id/info"
android:layout_width="0dip"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
</LinearLayout>
</FrameLayout>
In general, you should style the outermost component (container) which will then position all of its children accordingly. As a side not, this layout would be achieved using just a single (or pair, depending on exactly what you're trying to do) or FrameLayouts, which would significantly reduce the layout overhead. While there's nothing wrong with LinearLayout, it is surprisingly computationally expensive.
Related
The contents of my list view get hidden behind the button as follows:
The xml file is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_gravity="top"
>
<ListView
android:id="#android:id/list"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:drawSelectorOnTop="false"
/>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/InnerRelativeLayout"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
>
<Button
android:text="Send"
android:id="#+id/Button"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:onClick="addItems"
>
</Button>
<EditText
android:id="#+id/message"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/Button"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>
</EditText>
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
The TextView for each row is as follows:
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content
android:layout_gravity="right"
android:gravity="right"
android:textSize="20sp"
/>
What should i do to align it properly (as in above the button)?
Also when the listView is with just one or two entries, and when the keyboard is opened to type, the whole view shifts? How do I fix that as well? Thanks in advance
Cleaned up and corected the code a bit. Perhaps this is what you were looking for. Let me know if it works. Cheers !
<?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:orientation="vertical" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/InnerRelativeLayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/Button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:onClick="addItems"
android:text="Send" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/message"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="text"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/Button" />
</RelativeLayout>
<ListView
android:id="#android:id/list"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_above="#id/InnerRelativeLayout" />
</RelativeLayout>
adding android:layout_above="#+id/InnerRelativeLayout" to your ListView.
RelativeLayout has child views specify their position relative to the parent view or to each other (specified by ID). So you can align two elements by right border, or make one below another, centered in the screen, centered left, and so on. By default, all child views are drawn at the top-left of the layout, so you must define the position of each view using the various layout properties available from RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.
For put your InnerRelativeLayout layout at Top add android:layout_alignParentTop="true" to your InnerRelativeLayout and remove android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
Update: set up your Layout like below:
<?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="#color/Beige "
android:orientation="vertical" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/InnerRelativeLayout"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/Button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:onClick="addItems"
android:text="Send" >
</Button>
<EditText
android:id="#+id/message"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/Button"
android:hint="Enter text" >
</EditText>
</RelativeLayout>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/list"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/InnerRelativeLayout"
android:drawSelectorOnTop="false" />
</RelativeLayout>
Output:
use android:layout_above="#+id/InnerRelativeLayout" in your listview
Make the outer RelativeLayout into a LinearLayout with orientation vertical. Then, for the ListView set layout_height as 0dp and layout_weight as 1. The ListView will fill up all the remaining space in the LinearLayout without overlapping other views.
Also, stop using fill_parent, it's been deprecated and you should use match_parent instead.
I have a weird situation. I have a relatively simple layout with some rows and an image.
My layout looks like this (high level drawing):
The red square is an ImageView, the others are LinearLayouts and TextViews. My problem is that if i use Java code (setImageBitmap) to update the red ImageView's bitmap image then the Text 3's LinearLayout's weight seems disappear and its height will equal to the Text 3's TextView's height.
Like on this mockup (the green square is the new image):
The Text 3's LinearLayout's Weight is set to 1 so its height will force the Text 4's LinearLayout to be pushed to the bottom of the screen. So the Text 4 wont be on the bottom anymore, it jumps right after the Text 3's LinearLayout's bottom.
Here is my layout xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/MainLayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView6"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Text 1" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text2text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Text 2" />
</LinearLayout>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/Pic2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/timage" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/Text3Container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TextView02"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Text 3" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TextView03"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Text 4" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
It looks like im using some LinearLayouts that i should not but it contains more elements in the real layout, i just stripped it a little bit to be more simple to analyse here. But generally this is my xml.
Do you guys have any suggestion why is this happening? I also tried to put the image into a FrameLayout, same...
Thanks!
Desired layout is a header, with two frames below (to contain fragments later) and buttons fixed at the bottom of the screen:
Header Text
----------------------
frame 1 | frame 2
----------------------
btn 1 btn 2 btn 3
I pretty much have this sorted (xml at end), with one problem... the two frames are overlapping the buttons.
I've done some searching on the issue and found this, but all that does is change my problem from the frames overflowing the buttons to the frames overflowing the header.
I also tried setting the buttons to appear below the frames instead of aligned to the bottom of the parent, but that just pushed them off the screen.
current layout xml:
<?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:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/fdname"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:clickable="true"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="No department info has been entered yet"
android:textSize="25dp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/fdaddress"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/fdname"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="address"
android:textSize="15dp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/horizontalline"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="2dip"
android:layout_below="#id/fdaddress"
android:background="#ff23cf"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:paddingBottom="2dip"
android:paddingTop="2dip" />
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/frames"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_below="#id/horizontalline"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/leftpane"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/verticalline"
android:layout_width="2dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#ff23cf"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:paddingLeft="5dip"
android:paddingRight="5dip" />
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/rightpane"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1" >
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/buttons"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/EventViewButton"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:minHeight="25dp"
android:text="#string/menu_event_view"
android:textSize="15dp"
android:layout_weight="1">
</Button>
<Button
android:id="#+id/MemberViewButton"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:minHeight="25dp"
android:text="#string/menu_member_view"
android:textSize="15dp"
android:layout_weight="1">
</Button>
<Button
android:id="#+id/AttendanceViewButton"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:minHeight="25dp"
android:text="#string/menu_atnd_view"
android:textSize="15dp"
android:layout_weight="1">
</Button>
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
Try to declare the LinearLayout containing your buttons before the LinearLayout containing your frames, preserving the android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" attribute.
Then, to your frames container, add an above constraint:
android:layout_below="#id/horizontalline"
android:layout_above="#id/buttons"
This way should force your frames to be last thing to be drawn on the screen, thus filling the remaining space.
Hope it works!
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/frames"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_below="#id/horizontalline"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
Why is your layout_height="match_parent"? You'll need to specify some height, or wrap_content.
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/res/layout/relative_layout_1.html
Refer to this for top layer/alignment of you three views.(three text views in example)
Then use linearlayout with orientation horizontal, for your two frames, and same again for buttons
--
so basically to the frames id add alignbottom true , and provide
android:layout_above
android:layout_below
parameters
I have been working on an app for my school recently and wanted to clean it up a bit before possibly publishing it. On the scheduling portion of the app, I have 5 buttons that perform actions on a ListView that is also on the screen at the same time. However, I have the issue when I have around 6 or more events on the screen as once the list view takes over the screen and pushes the buttons off the screen, making it so that I cannot delete the events, make new ones, and so on.
I tried setting the list view to a static size (400px) which worked for normal screen orientation, but if the phone is set to landscape view you cannot see the buttons either. With my current code it would appear to work in the XML viewer but in practice is not the case.
This is the code without the static size setting:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#551A8B"
android:textColor="#FFD700"
>
<Button android:text="#string/New"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/button3">
</Button>
<Button android:text="#string/Edit"
android:id="#+id/button4"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/button3"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/button3">
</Button>
<Button android:text="#string/delete"
android:id="#+id/button5"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/button4"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/button4">
</Button>
<Button android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/button7"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/Previousweek"
android:layout_below="#id/button3">
</Button>
<Button android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/button6"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/Next"
android:layout_below = "#id/button3"
android:layout_toRightOf = "#id/button7">
</Button>
<ListView android:id="#+id/listView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:textColor="#FFD700"
android:layout_below="#id/button7"
android:textSize="10sp" >
</ListView>
</RelativeLayout>
The XML viewer for this code is:
Which would lead me to believe it would work fine. I tested it on my emulator and got the following result after entering a bunch of silly events however:
This result is consistent with multiple versions of the emulator.
How I can fix this problem without using static size constraints that cause landscape orientation issues?
Separate the buttons into a separate RelativeLayout and enclose this and the ListView in a vertical LinearLayout.
Then:
<LinearLayout android:id="#+id/linearLayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<RelativeLayout [...]
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<!-- Your buttons -->
</RelativeLayout>
<ListView android:id="#+id/listView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dip"
android:layout_weight="1" />
</LinearLayout
The key point here is the height and weight on the ListView. This means that it fills the remaining space in the LinearLayout after space has been correctly allocated for the buttons.
Add a android:weigth in your listView tag and set the android:weigth value to 1. This will work when your list view height and width is set to fill_parent and your list view is covering entire layout. So try it, it will work.
One simple solution would be to separate the buttons in their own relative layout and put the whole thing in a linear layout, eg:
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#551A8B"
android:textColor="#FFD700">
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#551A8B"
android:textColor="#FFD700">
<!-- your buttons -->
</RelativeLayout>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:textColor="#FFD700"
android:layout_below="#id/button7"
android:textSize="10sp">
</ListView>
</LinearLayout>
Use a vertical LinearLayout with two rows of Buttons (each row as a LinearLayout), then give the ListView a layout_weight value of "1". In fact, use layout_weight to clean up the size of your buttons too.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<Button android:text="#string/New"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:id="#+id/button3" />
<Button android:text="#string/Edit"
android:id="#+id/button4"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1" />
<Button android:text="#string/Delete"
android:id="#+id/button5"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<Button android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/button7"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/Previousweek" />
<Button android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/button6"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/Next" />
</LinearLayout>
<ListView android:id="#+id/listView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:textColor="#FFD700"
android:textSize="10sp" >
</ListView>
I'm just beginning Android and have gotten myself stuck. I've made a simple app/view. The idea is draw a line-maze in the top, with motion buttons on the bottom. My app only draws an x with a couple lines in the frame, but that works. The problem is that my buttons are being drawn too far down, and are clipped in height.
I assume the problem is all in my layout xml:
<?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">
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1" >
<none.maze.MazeView
android:id="#+id/maze"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
/>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text"
android:text="#string/maze_layout_text_text"
android:visibility="visible"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:textColor="#ff8888ff"
android:textSize="24sp"/>
</RelativeLayout>
</FrameLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/left"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Left"
android:layout_weight="1"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/forward"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Forward"
android:layout_weight="1"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/right"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Right"
android:layout_weight="1"
/>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
I think you shouldn't use layout_height="fill_parent" and layout_weight at the same time. Try to set layout_height="0dip" and layout_weight="1" for the FrameLayout and layout_height="wrap_content" for the lower LinearLayout. The lower LinearLayout mustn't have the layout_weight attribute.
Use Hierarchy Viewer to debug your layout. Its pretty cool.
Your entire layout is just way too bloated and ineffective. You use way too many ViewGroups. I recommend reading about RelativeLayouts and especially the entire Layout Tricks series.