Absolute positioning in XML?

lostgame · by **lostgame** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:44 pm

Alright, so I'm designing my first Android app for the company I work at. Followed a bunch of tutorials, got our API working with java, all is great. The backend works 100% but the UI is the most absolutely God-awful thing I have ever had to work with.

I have a *very* specific layout I need to follow but everything acts like it all wants to be relative. I need everything to be absolutely positioned. If I use rules like 'gravity' and 'layout_gravity' they either simply don't work or do not behave as expected. All I want to do is just specify x and y values for views using this XML syntax, but I can't find any documentation anywhere specifying how to do this.

Can somebody please lend a hand? I'm so frustrated and I really want to give android an 100% chance, but I'm having such a hard time. It just doesn't seem to have the awesome support and documentation behind it that the iPhone has. I hope this forum can prove me wrong. =)

lostgame · by **lostgame** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:21 pm

Bump? I can't find any documentation on this, guys :/

xspotlivin · by **xspotlivin** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:33 am

You can use an AbsoluteLayout. Here's an example of me positioning a button and textview on top of a custom view:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 
<AbsoluteLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
 
    android:orientation="horizontal"
 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
 
    >
 
<example.android.someactivity.CustomView
 
        android:id="@+id/clockview"
 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
 
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
 
        />
 
<Button
 
        android:id="@+id/checkbox"
 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 
        android:layout_x="50px"
 
        android:layout_y="20px"
 
        android:background="@drawable/box_check"
 
        />
 
<TextView
 
        android:id="@+id/currenttime"
 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 
        android:layout_x="240px"
 
        android:layout_y="160px"
 
        />
 
</AbsoluteLayout>
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Absolute positioning in XML?

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