android-layout

Setting visible focus on text view

Hi, I've got listview that in a row it contain 3elements: imageview, textvie and another imageview. I've set my listview to setItemsCanFocus(true) and every item is set setFocusable(false). Screen: http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/4042/zrzutekranue.png I can navigate on the screen (click on text/image, I have those fields set to click...

What event is fired after all views are fully drawn?

I need to capture the absolute positions of some ImageViews to use as drop targets. I can't seem to find what event I need to put my code in to read the screen and get the Left(), Top() .. positions. I do not want monitor the inflation of each individual view. There must be some sort of onScreenFinsihed type of event, but I can't find ...

Question on Android Layout

Can I modify android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1? For eg., I want to change the text color of the textview inside the listview dynamically. For this, I need to get to the textview and change its color.. How can I do that? ...

How to define a maximum or relative dimension in a view?

One part of my layout is supposed to have two components: A ScrollView on top, and a MapView on the bottom. Both views should be exactly half the size of the parent. I have the size of the parent (I'm switching to this layout at a point when I already have the size), but I don't know how to define the maximum size. Besides, I figure the...

ANDROID : split the screen in 2 equals parts with 2 listviews ...

Hello everyone, I'm trying to put 2 listviews into my layout. The problem is that I don't know the size of each listview in advance. The first listview could have a few items (0, 1, 2 up to roughly 10) and the second listview could have many items (up to 100). I tried to set the weight of both listviews at 1 but it did not work: => If...

Managing Android layouts, there must be a better way

Hi, I'm trying to sort the layout for one of my Android apps, but I'm finding layouts a nightmare. Principally I have to have a portrait and landscape layout for normal, small and large screens. So thats 6 layouts to maintain to start with, let alone having to launch the app on three emulators each time because my UI widets don't lo...

Sizing an Android multi-line TextView

I have an Activity where I want to display a heading that takes up the top quarter of the app and displays a dynamic set of text. In some cases it'll all fit on one line and I'd like the font size to get sized up so it's large and easy to read. In some cases it'll be on multiple lines (usually less than 4) and need to be smaller. The co...

How to load activity before loading all images?

Hi Friends, I have been struggling with this problem for many days. please help me.. In my android application i am trying to download images from remote server dynamically ( no of images dynamically come ). for downloading all images it is taking 30 to 40 seconds mean time user has to wait to see the activity . But it is the worst ca...

How to set different Layouts in 1 XML file in Android

Hi friends i have set my layout thru TabLayout within LinearLayout but still my button in the end couldn't be set properly as TabLayout divides all the fields in number of columns so can anyone help how to set 2 Layouts in one XML file means all the fields in TabLayout and remaining both Login and Register buttons in Linear Layout ore so...

Relative layout alignment goes wrong on a multiline textview.

I have a relative layout with various text view aligned in it.But the alignment goes wrong if value of any textview goes multiline.is there any way to avoid it? The view required is something like : Name: Abc address: 23,abc street,fhjhg apartments,Country Email: [email protected] address text view has width set as wrap-content...

screen adjusting ability feature in android..

I have an application which is designed for a fixed screen size.But when i install the application on a device with different screen size ,i am not able to view the complete application. Is it possible to allow layout adjustments based on variable screen sizes? ... like setting width with some % of screen size which is decided when appl...

How to get my layout correct for inputting coordinates in EditTexts for Maps

I need to input latitude and longitude separately in 2 EditTexts and diplay the location at the click of a button. Somehow i'm not able to get the correct layout as i precisely require 2 EditTexts aligned side by side and a button below them. Here is what i already have: <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/zoom" android:...

Width of LayoutParams is ignored for the outer view when set in java code (instead of xml layout)

I create a very simple activity where I create and set the view in java code instead of xml. The width I pass to the outer LinearLayout though has no effect at all (200). The view is displayed on the entire width of the screen, no matter what value I pass here. (Note that this is just sample code; I know that in a real app you don't use...

How do I achieve square layout and buttons in main.xml?

Hello, I would like to have a layout with 5 times 5 buttons. Each of them should have the same width and height (they should be square). And I want the whole matrix to use the screen width (or height, depending on rotation). I currently do it "by hand" in the Java code: for (int y=0; y<5; y++) { TableRow tr = new TableRow(this); ...

Android doesn't show part of layout.

Why the last section is not displayed at all? AFAIK It should. It starts with : <LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_width="70dip" android:minWidth="70dp" android:layout_weight="1"> Thanks in advance. Full XML layout: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <V...

Android Hierarchy viewer is missing

Hierarchy Viewer tool is missing from my android-sdk-windows\tools directory. Link to tool: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/hierarchy-viewer.html Should it be there is first place? P.S. SDK Tools rev. 7, Platforms 7 & 8 packages are installed. ...