#android-layout

How to: Linear Layout and weight in Android #dev #programming #it

Linear Layout and weight in Android

I always read about this funny weight value in the Android documentations. Now I want to try it for the first time but it isn’t working at all.

As I understand it from the documentations this layout:

Solution: LinearLayout not expanding inside a ScrollView #it #development #solution

LinearLayout not expanding inside a ScrollView

I have a LinearLayout inside a ScrollView that has android:layout_height="fill_parent", but it doesn’t expand to the full height of the ScrollView. My layout looks something like:

level layout layout_width layout_height 1 LinearLayout fill_parent fill_parent 2 LinearLayout fill_parent wrap_content 3 (some irrelevant stuff) 2 ScrollView fill_parent…

How-to: Android: How to create a Dialog without a title? #development #computers #programming

Android: How to create a Dialog without a title?

I’m trying to generate a custom dialog in Android. I create my Dialog like this:

dialog = new Dialog(this); dialog.setContentView(R.layout.my_dialog);

Everythings works fine except for the title of the Dialog. Even if I don’t set the title of the dialog the dialog popup has a blank space at the position of the dialog.

Is there any way to hide…

Android Paint: .measureText() vs .getTextBounds()

I’m measuring text using Paint.getTextBounds(), since I’m interested in getting both the height and width of the text to be rendered. However, the actual text rendered is always a bit wider than the .width() of the Rect information filled by getTextBounds().

To my surprise, I tested .measureText(), and found that it returns a different (higher)…

How to: Making sense of LayoutInflater

Making sense of LayoutInflater

I’ve had severe trouble getting LayoutInflater to work as expected, and so did other people (help-for-using-layoutinflator-to-add-views-at-runtime).

The recurring question is: why does LayoutInflater ignore the layout parameters I’ve specified? E.g. why are the layout_width and layout_height values from my resources XML not honored?

Answer: Making sense of…

How to: How to programatically set drawableLeft on Android button?

How to programatically set drawableLeft on Android button?

I’m dynamically creating buttons. I styled them using XML first, and I’m trying to take the XML below and make it programattic.

How to: Calling setCompoundDrawables() doesn't display the Compound Drawable

Calling setCompoundDrawables() doesn’t display the Compound Drawable

After I call the setCompoundDrawables method, the compound Drawable is not shown..

Drawable myDrawable = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.btn); btn.setCompoundDrawables(myDrawable, null, null, null);

Any thoughts?

Answer: Calling setCompoundDrawables() doesn’t display the Compound Drawable

I needed to be using setCompoun…

How to: Can the Android Layout folder contain subfolders?

Can the Android Layout folder contain subfolders?

Right now, i stores every xml layout file inside the layout folder, so it is feasible and simple to manage small projects, but when there is a case of large and heavy projects, then there should be a hierarchy and sub-folders needed inside the layout folder.

for e.g.

layout layout_personal personal_detail.xml personal_other.xml layout_address…