Combine images and text in a view? what view?

yorgosg · by **yorgosg** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:02 am

Hi all,

This is my first post! I did a first attempt with Android, created a TextView, which includes some text. I then created an ImageView to draw an image on it. However, I noticed that whichever View I set with setContentView(), then this is the one shown on screen...
Is there a way to draw BOTH images and text in one view?Maybe combine the two views, like draw one on top of the other?

Another question I have is if there is a way to make my app screen appear in a small window in the main menu screen. Like the way widgets are in windows, the ones that show the weather or other news etc...

Thanks very much in advance. Any help is appreciated, cause I am under a strict deadline!

ps Is there a way to combine a drop down input selection with the previous two views? Cheers!!!!

plusminus · by **plusminus** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:52 am

Hello yorgosg,

So something like this... is what you want to do, right :?:

So have a look at :src: the code of my Weather-Forecast-Tutorial for the specific snippets (in there, search for 'SingleWeatherInfoView').

Regards,
plusminus

namsir · by **namsir** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:10 pm

I think he meant it like this.....i'm still a newbie lol this is the second project i was working on just an example to see how to code in java and xml......

upload your picture in the resdrawable folder and name it "hello"

Main.xml:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    >
    
<TextView
           android:layout_width="fill_parent"
           android:layout_height="fill_parent"
           android:text = "Helloooooooooooooooooooooooooo"
 
/>
<ImageView android:id="@+id/imageview"
           android:layout_width="wrap_content"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:src="@drawable/hello"
           
/>
 
</LinearLayout>
 
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<activity>.java:

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package com.android.HelloImageText;
 
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;
 
 
public class helloworldImageText extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
        super.onCreate(icicle);
       
         setContentView(R.layout.main);
        
    }
}
 
 
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Combine images and text in a view? what view?

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