Android : Specifying LinearLayout Orientation In Resource "values"
Apr 20, 2010
I have a linear layout where the orientation needs to be "horizontal" in portrait mode and "vertical" in landscape mode.
There are a few ways to do this, the most obvious of which being to specify two layouts: one in "layout" and one in "layout-land".
However, this will require a certain amount of duplicate XML. I know you can use <include> to minimize this, but at the very least the attributes of the LinearLayout tag will need to be duplicated and two extra XML files need to be created (one layout-land file and one include for the contents of that layout).
As an alternative I do this in the LinearLayout tag:
android:orientation="@string/custom_lang_orientation"
and then: values/strings.xml <string name="custom_lang_orientation">0</string>
values/strings-land.xml <string name="custom_lang_orientation">1</ string>
which is a hack. Its also a bit risky because of the assumption the integer values for horizontal/vertical will not change. However, I suppose this is extremely unlikely. Any thoughts?
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Aug 17, 2010
I followed this tutorial to create a color state list for a particular Android view. I just want it to highlight when clicked so the user knows why the screen just changed.
When the view is rendered, I get the following error:
CODE:.........
My color XML (in res/color/viewcolor.xml):
CODE:..........................
My layout XML (in res/layout/myview.xml):
CODE:...............................
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Jan 15, 2010
Is there any possibility to Edit String.xml values in Android? Please suggest me the possible ways.I want to provide Enable/Disable option for my App. To accomplish this I can use SQLite database. But I doesn't like to Use DB for a single variable value.
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Apr 1, 2009
Is it possible to alter the string values(in resources) in APK after creating it.
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Mar 28, 2010
Looking in the android sdk folders, I've found a file called values/config.xml. This seems to be somewhere that you can define values for later use in layouts and animations.
Given the config.xml:
<resources>
<string name="config_somePadding">50dip</string>
</resources>
How would I reference this to use as the layout_height in a layout xml file?
@string/config_somePadding is actually the only one I've found that doesn't throw an error in Eclipse (even though there isn't a config_somePadding in values/strings.xml), but it appears to just put an empty string.
In the sdk, they use an integer for animation duration. They reference it like this: android:duration="@android:integer/config_longAnimTime". Is there a way to use values that aren't integers in the layout_height attribute?
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Jun 7, 2010
I have some messages being passed back from my server through php. The problem is that the messages are in English and if the user is using another language they will still get the message in English.
So I had an idea that maybe instead of passing back the message I would instead pass the String resource Id from the android app, that way the app will get the correct string id for their language. I will use this in a number of apps so I just want to know if the string id is guaranteed to be the same across different android projects?
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Aug 21, 2010
If I have 2 LinearLayouts split %50/%50 everything is fine. Weights are 1 and 1. As soon as I add a TextView inside the top LinearLayout, it stretches that layout. I use "wrap_content" as the documentation says I should when it comes to weights. As you can see the red and green should be split evenly and text on grey background should be inside red box.
Here is the code:..............
Now if I switch to "fill parent" as follows it actually works but it creates another problem. Here is the code (so far so good):
So looking at above we were forced to use "fill_parent" and we would think like we fixed the problem but here is the problem if we are using "fill_parent" (I took out the textview just to show the problem, textview doesnt make the problem go away anyways):
As you can see I assign the weights 3 (top red) and 2 (bottom green) but what actually happens is they get flipped: The red becomes 2 and bottom becomes 3. Just measure the pixels too see.
Here are the results of the 3 codes: http://imgur.com/iVt8g.jpg
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May 25, 2010
I have a RelativeLayout that has two LinearLayouts in it. One is a bunch of TextViews and EditTexts that make up a form and the other is a ButtonBar that submits the form.
anyways, everything looks great in portrait, but when i switch to landscape mode the bottom TextView/EditText element is being hidden by the buttonbar.
screenshot to show the problem. as you can see some of the "email" textview and all of the email edit text are being hidden by button bar.
http://i45.tinypic.com/2dt7qmt.jpg
and xml:
CODE:............................
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Apr 9, 2014
I want to ask where does the defaults values of memory min-free values of a Rom reside? I mean what file I would have to edit to edit those values?
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Aug 3, 2010
I have an XML resource file:
<resources> <section>
<category value="1" resourceId="@xml/categoryData1" />
<category value="2" resourceId="@xml/categoryData2" />
<category value="3" resourceId="@xml/categoryData3" />
</section> </resources>
Using XmlPullParser, on the START_TAG, I can use:
int value = parser.getAttributeIntValue(null, "value", 0);
to get values 1, 2, 3...however:
int resourceId = parser.getAttributeIntValue(null, "resourceId", 0);
doesn't work...it just yields the default value 0, or whatever I change the default value (3rd parameter) to be. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong or if this is possible?
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Jun 25, 2009
Why is the following code causing an exception? The Code throws a "mBaselineAlignedChildIndex of LinearLayout set to an index that is out of bounds" exception.
CODE:..............
If l2 is dont added to l1 than it works.
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May 14, 2009
I have created an activity for my game which handles all orientation changes by itself and has a fixed "portrait" layout. Actually it uses the accelerometer and is rendered using 2D canvas methods. If the level has been completed I show up a highscore dialog in which the user can enter his name. The dialog is floating above the underlying level screen which gets blurred out nicely. This generally works.
Problem is that the dialog does not get rotated if the orientation of the phone changes. So even if the keyboard is exposed the dialog is shown in portrait mode instead of landscape. I have tried to use an activity with dialog theme instead but the behavior didn't change. After several tries it seems that I have found the reason for this: Once there's an activity with fixed orientation in the activity stack then all subsequent activities keep this orientation, too. They will not react on orientation changes anymore (e.g. if the keyboard gets exposed).
After upgrading to 1.5 SDK the described behavior changed a little bit. Now at subactivities indead react on orientation changes like expected. However, the need to have an opaque background! That means that neither dialogs nor activities with dialog theme will work. Those will stick with the orientation of the underlaying activity. So my workaround is to first start a sub-activity with an opaque black background. This activity then shows my highscore dialog on top. It looks quite okay but I wonder if there's a better solution? Is it possible to show a dialog above a fixed portrait or landscape activity which automatically adapts to orientation changes?
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Aug 19, 2010
I understand how to force a specific orientation per activity in the android manifest. I would like to know if it is possible to allow the keyboard to change orientation even though the activity(the layout really) must remain unchanged.
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Jul 17, 2009
I have a problem with working with the ORIENTATION values of the SensorManager. I would like to have some kind of 360°-value which directly shows me if the phone is in normal portrait (0°), landscape, portrait turned around (180°) or anything in between. So I could have, for example, an arrow that points to the floor (like gravity would do with a plummet) all the time, no matter how I tilt (sidewards) the phone. I thought this would be easy, but I'm pretty confused at the moment.
First of all, the X value of the orientation-array seems to correspondent with how I turn the phone, BUT: if it's completely uprightly standing, this value is about 60° ... why not 0° (or 90°, 180°, 270°), as I would expect?
Second: The value resets if I turn the phone and Android automatically changes screen orientation. So both in Portrait and in Landscape mode it will be sth. like 60° when the phone is in a 0° angel in real world. I set "android:screenOrientation" to "landscape" but this doesn't help anything :/
I want the app NOT to change orientation when I turn the phone, but I want it to get a continuous orientation value when I tilt the phone.
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Jan 29, 2010
When I'm clicking the linear layout it should be highlighted.
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Jun 14, 2009
I create a LinearLayout (orientation horizontal) which contains some TextView. The LinearLayout has a size of 1200px. When user move on, the screen, I would like to do like the Launcher application. I tried to use startScroll function. even if I set a distance, the layout doesn't move alone. Only distance did by user is slided. Does startScroll move alone all content? If yes, why my code doesn't work?
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Nov 21, 2009
I have put 6 linearlayouts in the main.xml file vertically arranged in the main linearlayout. initially i want 1, 2, 3 and 6 ll to be displayed, then after sometime, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and then after some time 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. is it possible ?
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I have build a UI using linearlayout. It displays fine if phone is in vertical position. But when I switch my phone to horizontal position. Some content is not displayed. Is there anyway to add a scroll bar to linear layout?
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How do I place a TextView in the center of a horizontal LinearLayout?
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I want to inflate a childView of ExpandableChildView component.
Code:.............
Where linearOpt is a vector that contains a lot of LinearLayout objects that I have instantiated.
CODE:..
This is R.layout.itemrow xml:
But I received this error:
CODE:.................
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when I'm using a Datepicker on a LinearLayout and I set a date by finger, if I go to landscape mode the widget lost the date that I have previously set and set the actual date. It's a bug or I'm wrong something?
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I'd like to get the height of a linearlayout. I found more information in this answer
View.getWidth()/View.getHeight() won't give you a meaningful answer until the view has been measured.
How will I know that view has been measured? Is there some event for it?
Solution for me is to get layout's height in overriden onWindowFocusChanged()
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I'm trying to create a simple view of a header image, few buttons, then footer image. I'm using a LinearLayout inside a ScrollView.
Even though i'm using the android:layout_gravity="bottom" for the footer image, it's being placed about 1 cm above the bottom margin.
I'm using the following xml config
CODE:...............
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WebView:
Height: wrap-content
Weight: unset (by the way, what is the default?)
Button:
Height: wrap-content
Weight: unset
However if the web page became too big it spilled out over the button. I tried various combinations of weights and heights, and all except one either completely hide the button, or partially cover it...............
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Here's the code:.......................
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I've always been using RelativeLayout everytime I needed a View container, because of it's flexibility, even if I just wanted to display something really simple.Is it ok to do so, or should I try using a LinearLayout when I can, from a performance/good practices standpoint?
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