Android Custom View (Table) - java

I have a problem figuring out how to create a custom android view that contains other views in it like a table. How can I create a method in that android custom view class for adding a view inside it, I would like to know how the parent view will resize and position the child view.
How can I create a table like view that I can use to add other views in ?
Should I extend View(since I actually want to create a view not a layout) or ViewGroup(since I want to add other views in it) ?
This is what I hope to obtain:

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I want to create the filter screen same as amazon and flipkart in native android with java or kotlin. How is it possible?

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so How is it possible?
like one side I can use Recycler View and another side Frame Layout but my question is in Frame Layout How can I add dynamic Fragment and Fragment Transaction according to Recyclerview Item?
like one side I can use Recycler View and another side Frame Layout but my question is in Frame Layout How can I add dynamic Fragment and Fragment Transaction according to Recyclerview Item?
You could do that by having distinguish IDs for your items and pass that ID to the fragment using bundle, then you can load data in your fragment using the id u retrieve from the bundle. Hope this helps

How to get on item click listener the name of the layout clicked inside the item of a list view?

I have a list view, for which I implemented a custom adapter. Each item(row) of the list view is composed of several linear layouts. So when I implement the OnItemClickListener, I can't find a solution to get the name or the id of the linear layout clicked.
Can I find any help to solve this problem?
In tag field in XML you can give name and can access in the code part

Make Fragment appear first in LinearLayout

I am building parts of my layout programmatically.
My process looks like this:
I inflate a layout: View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.view_layout, viewGroup, false);
I add this view to the ViewGroup: viewGroup.addView(view);
Before adding views in this way, I first add a fragment to the root view of viewGroup:
getChildFragmentManager().beginTransaction().add(R.id.viewgroup_root, fragment, "fragment_tag").commit();
My ViewGroup is a LinearLayout and I am adding the Fragment before I add the other views. However, the Fragment is appearing last - after all the views I add using ViewGroup.addView().
How can I get the added Fragment to be displayed first in the LinearLayout, and why is the LinearLayout displaying it last if it was added first?
commit() is asynchronous - it does not run immediately. Therefore you definitely are running your addView methods before your fragment is actually added.
As Fragments automatically are re-added to their respective layout based on ID and you do not control the ordering of when the fragment is added to the layout in those cases, you can't rely on any initial ordering.
Instead, you should always add a Fragment to its own container - if using Fragment 1.2.0 or higher (the latest right now is 1.2.5), you should add a FragmentContainerView to your LinearLayout. If you're using an earlier version of Fragments, you'd want to add a FrameLayout to your LinearLayout. In either case, you'd need to make sure you use setId() with that layout and use the same ID when you use add.
You will have to leave placeholder under your LinearLayout and use placeholder's ID to do beginTransaction/add stuff. Any viewgroup would do. You are not just adding another view to your viewgroup, you are adding a fragment. It has its own lifecycle, bound to entities hosting it (activity, fragment).

How Android Custom Adapter works?

I'am trying to use a custom listView in my application and i have some questions about its working principles.When i implemented a custom adapter,how its methods(especially the getView method)work without calling them from any other class ?
When you set the adapter to a view (e.g. ListView or GridView), that view at some point wants to have some items to show. So it calls getView in the adapter:
getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent).
The position is the position of the item in the list/grid/etc. The convertView is a recycled view that can be already inflated by a previous getView() call, or null when it's not inflated yet (see this answer about convertView and view recycling.
The parent is used to inflated the view, so the correct layout parameters can be computed in relation to the parent view.
Note that inflation is slow. That is why the convertView mechanism exists, to recycle views so the number of inflations is minimized. Next to that, finding views (findViewById()) is also relatively slow. To improve on that, check out the ViewHolder pattern, which keeps references to views in memory so they don't have to be searched for each time.
I think this link can help you. getview is a callback function which will be called automatically when you will display your listview on Activity. When you display your listview then you overrides getview and inflates your row from XML or dynamically creates your row. That row you return as a view which displays in your listview.
How does the getView() method work when creating your own custom adapter?
For each row getview will be called once. You create your layouts and return them as view. Those respective views displays in your lisview rows.
You are calling the custom adapter class from you activity class.Your customised adapter class extends a BaseAdapter which is an abstract class.The methods of an abstract will be used by the extended class(the methods like getView(), getItemId(), getItem(), and getCount()).These methods should not need a seperate call from your Class since you are calling the customised adapter classs .

Create a composite view in Android

I'd like to create a custom view (I'll call it MyComplexView), for example a RelativeLayout with an Imageview, a TextView, and a Button.
I'd like to declare an xml with the layout and then create the class:
MyComplexView extends RelativeLayout{...}
But I don't know what I should override to indicate which layout should be inflated.
How can I do this? Thanks
Something like this:
add the constructors from the super class. (the one with just context is for creating the views programaticaly, the others are for when you add the view in XML.
create a method called init() for example and call it from each constructor.
inside the init method do:
LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.my_view_layout, this, true);
now in inflate the additional params actually mean:
true -> attach the layout to the root in your case relative layout (pro-tip: so inside the xml you can have just merge tags if your layout root is also relative layout and align them in code so the hierarchy is simpler) or any layout you like.
this -> the layout to attach the inflated view to in your case the relative layout you are extending.
it will automatically be attached to the root -> extends RelativeLayout.
then you can use findViewById like:
this.findViewById(R.id.myView);
I'm not 100% sure what your main goal is, so I try to be thorough:
If you want to include a complex layout in other layouts, then you can simply define my_complext_layout.xml, and in your other layouts put:
<include layout="#layout/my_complext_layout" />
If you need to run your own code, then you could simply make the root of this layout to be MyComplexView, and you can run code when the view is created.
If you have intended to let your code operate on the layout, then simply implement an OnGlobalLayoutListener and add it to your layout in your views constructor.
Implement a Constructor for the MyComplexView:
public MyComplexView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs){
LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
inflater.inflate(R.layout.header_view, this, true);
mHeaderView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.header);
if(mHeaderView != null)
mHeaderView.setText("Test");
}
See Custom Components in the developer docs. In particular the Compound Controls section.
Once you've made your java file, in order to refer to it in xml you'll have to use a fully qualified packagename i.e:
<com.yourpackage.YourCustomView
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" />
Creating a custom view usually is aimed to create a widget which doesn't exist yet. What you're trying to do is to have the same layout repeated at multiple places.
You have severall options to do that according to your context.
If the layout is to be placed in a lest, just create your layout in a separate file, and use it in a ListAdapter. Take a look at the ListView Tutorial for this.
If this layout is a generic layout to be embedded in multiple activities, try using a Fragment instead. Fragments are subparts of an activity, with their own views. Alternatively, you can just embed the layout in severall xml using the tag.
If really you want a custom class and single widget, then you need to extend the View class. Extending a layout means you wan't to organize child widgets differently (for example, organize them in circle). Extending a View, you can have exactly what you want (button, image, text) organized always in the same way. But I won't lie to you, this will mean lot of work.

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