I am working on a simple project and i wanted to know what or how is the best way to make your background image appear moving or move , i have this clouds that i want to move infinitely ? any help will be appreciated.
A <FrameLayout ...> (in the layout xml) draws its children one on top of another.
So
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
< the background view />
< the informative view />
</FrameLayout>
should do the trick. But please mind that a moving background can waste such resources as CPU load and battery.
UPDATE (moving: as any other view)
To make a view move, you can either use an animation or change the view position programmatically. I did the latter in response to a touch, you probably will choose the former. There is a lot about animations on SO.
I would try to take the background image 2 times wider than the screen, set the left coordinate to a negative value, and animate changing this value to 0 (the image would move right, at least so it was in iOS).
Note 1.
To position a view inside an either LinearLayout or RelativeLayout you can use auxiliary transparent views.
For example, the layout below splits the screen in 5 areas:
11111111111
222 333
44444444444
and places an image in the corner to the right of "2" and above "4":
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/sight"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<View
android:id="#+id/sightq1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="80px"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
/>
<View
android:id="#+id/sightq4"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="80px"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
/>
<View
android:id="#+id/sightq2"
android:layout_width="80px"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_above="#id/sightq4"
android:layout_below="#id/sightq1"
/>
<View
android:id="#+id/sightq3"
android:layout_width="80px"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_above="#id/sightq4"
android:layout_below="#id/sightq1"
/>
<!-- example: -->
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/..."
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/sightq2"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/sightq4"
android:src="#drawable/..."
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
Having said that, I have to note that probably you will not need auxiliary views, just positioning will do.
Note 2.
To get the actual view width/height of a view, you must use a ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener and call v.getMeasuredWidth() and v.getMeasuredHeight() from onGlobalLayout(). These width and height are known only after layout happens.
v.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(mLayoutListener); to register a listener.
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Recently, designers in my company liked creating half-above elements in layouts for Android apps. I've been struggling for a while trying to make these elements behave as good as possible, but I'm already tired of it. Is there any way of positioning views like on this image
with an assumption that if user touch row/card it became "checked" and this black dot icon became visible (second click makes it invisible of course).
You can do something like this:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_toEndOf="#+id/circle_view"
android:background="#android:color/holo_blue_bright">
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
android:id="#+id/second_view"
android:layout_width="100dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
</FrameLayout
<View
android:id="#+id/circle_view"
android:layout_width="16dp"
android:layout_height="16dp"
android:background="#android:color/holo_red_dark"
android:layout_marginEnd="-8dp"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>
second_view is endOf circle_view so if circle_view is gone second_view will align to startOf parent.
circle_view should have marginEnd set to negative value of its width divided by two
I have a viewpager that recreate parallax effect using ViewPager.PageTransformer()
I have a clip art made of several pieces (clouds, tree etc...) that i have to place very precisely on a layout of one of my fragment, so can animate them later independently , but i'm unable to place any item precisely. On a relative layout, it seems that each time i move one items with the mouse, it goes either right , left, or top etc.., i want to be able to place them pixels by pixels, a bit like a puzzle
Is there any any layout (mspaint style) i could use that would let me place freely my item using my mouse for example, without having to obey any rules of placement ?
Thanks a lot
I have been able to use RelativeLayout in Android Studio to place items precisely. The images to tend to "snap" along grid lines when close, but I think that with careful mouse movement you can make it work. This will be very dependent upon the screen size and will not scale up/down well since it is using margins, but it may be what you need.
Here is the layout I tested with in Android Stdio 2.1. I hope this helps.
<?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">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="219dp"
android:layout_height="219dp"
android:background="#00FF00"
android:layout_marginRight="26dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="26dp"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:layout_marginTop="58dp" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView2"
android:layout_width="219dp"
android:layout_height="219dp"
android:background="#FF0000"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="53dp"
android:layout_marginStart="53dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
I have a GridView which displays the user's photos. What I want to find is the exact columnWidth I have to specify so that the number of columns will vary from device to device, but always take up the entire screen (like QuickPic does). Right now my code is as follows:
//GridView inside Fragment layout file
<GridView
android:id="#+id/gridview"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:columnWidth="90dp"
android:horizontalSpacing="2.75dp"
android:verticalSpacing="2.75dp"
android:numColumns="auto_fit"
android:stretchMode="columnWidth" />
//GridView row
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<ImageView android:id="#+id/ivPhoto"
android:layout_width="90dp"
android:layout_height="90dp"
android:scaleType="fitCenter" />
</RelativeLayout>
With my code, I get a lot of whitespace I don't want. I want it to have whitespace, but very little. I want the Grid to fill the entire screen with columns (photos), but leaving some little whitespace between them.
What would the perfect columnWidth be?
Thank you.
Making the Gridview adapt to different screen sizes is a little tricky using xml. A good solution is to adjust the size of the gridviews in your adapter's getView() method.
check out this example.
Adjust GridView to all Screen Sizes
I have the Views attached to each other in the following order:
Activity->RelativeLayout->RelativeLayout->Text
When I change the Y of one of the Text attached to the inner RelativeLayout, parts of it are cut.
Here's a screenshot:
http://s28.postimg.org/ypmvrjz25/image.png
I'm coding purely in Java, no XML.
What's going on?
It looks like one layout is overlapping on another because the menu bar is pushing it down. If you just want the text centered I would suggest setting that in the parameters like so.
android:gravity="center"
This places the text in the center if that is what you want.
<?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"
android:gravity="center">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:text="Medium Text"
android:id="#+id/textView12"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal" />
</LinearLayout>
As #Jonathan Whalen suggested you probably have some overlap, I suggest you to change your relative layouts background color to see wich one is overlapping the text. Also try to not use fixed height for the layouts but use wrap_content instead, as fixed dims are frequently the cause of layouts overlap.
I have multiple ImageViews which are transparent and are meant to over lap one another. I am aligning then to one another but one problem presist. How can I set the order in which they are layered? Ive tried revising the code in both xml and how the images are set in the actual java code...
I have tried FrameLayout but maybe Im not using it right...here is my implementation:
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
tools:context=".RadarActivity" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageview_topo"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="45dp"
android:scaleType="center"
android:visibility="invisible" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageview_counties"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="45dp"
android:scaleType="center"
android:visibility="invisible" />
No matter what I do...imageview_topo is always placed on top. Even in the code i have instantated topo first and retrieved its image first!
Thank you!
I referred a site here that says:
If multiple child views exist, then they are drawn, in order, one atop
the other. This means that the first view added to the frame layout
will display on the bottom of the stack, and the last view added will
display on top.
You can check this site too: http://blog.neteril.org/blog/2013/10/10/framelayout-your-best-ui-friend/
May be i can help you more if you show the screenshot of your UI.