Is it possible to set the absolute position of a view in android? (I know that there is an AbsoluteLayout, but it's deprecated...) Lets say I have a screen 240x320px, and I want to put an ImageView which is 20x20px with its center at the position (100,100). What do I have to do? Thanks for the help, this is driving me crazy.
You can use RelativeLayout. Let's say you wanted a 30x40 ImageView at position (50,60) inside your layout. Somewhere in your activity:
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RelativeLayout rl = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.my_relative_layout);
ImageView iv = new ImageView(this);
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(30, 40);
params.leftMargin = 50;
params.topMargin = 60;
rl.addView(iv, params);
More examples:
Places two 30x40 ImageViews (one yellow, one red) at (50,60) and (80,90), respectively:
RelativeLayout rl = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.my_relative_layout);
ImageView iv;
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params;
iv = new ImageView(this);
iv.setBackgroundColor(Color.YELLOW);
params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(30, 40);
params.leftMargin = 50;
params.topMargin = 60;
rl.addView(iv, params);
iv = new ImageView(this);
iv.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED);
params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(30, 40);
params.leftMargin = 80;
params.topMargin = 90;
rl.addView(iv, params);
Places one 30x40 yellow ImageView at (50,60) and another 30x40 red ImageView <80,90> relative to the yellow ImageView:
RelativeLayout rl = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.my_relative_layout);
ImageView iv;
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params;
int yellow_iv_id = 123; // Some arbitrary ID value.
iv = new ImageView(this);
iv.setId(yellow_iv_id);
iv.setBackgroundColor(Color.YELLOW);
params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(30, 40);
params.leftMargin = 50;
params.topMargin = 60;
rl.addView(iv, params);
iv = new ImageView(this);
iv.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED);
params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(30, 40);
params.leftMargin = 80;
params.topMargin = 90;
// This line defines how params.leftMargin and params.topMargin are interpreted.
// In this case, "<80,90>" means <80,90> to the right of the yellow ImageView.
params.addRule(RelativeLayout.RIGHT_OF, yellow_iv_id);
rl.addView(iv, params);
Just to add to Andy Zhang's answer above, if you want to, you can give param to rl.addView, then make changes to it later, so:
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params.leftMargin = 50;
params.topMargin = 60;
rl.addView(iv, params);
Could equally well be written as:
params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(30, 40);
rl.addView(iv, params);
params.leftMargin = 50;
params.topMargin = 60;
So if you retain the params variable, you can change the layout of iv at any time after adding it to rl.
when you use arrays to set the positions of many ImageView, you should keep calling "new Relayout.LayoutParams( int , int ),or you will make all ImageViews the same position!
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