android-framelayout – Tarik Billa

How to change direction of android elevation shadow?

September 13, 2023 by Tarik

I consider this method is the best solution: Android Bottom Navigation Bar with drop shadow Thanks, Alexander Bilchuk. Solution: You can draw your own shadow just above the view using simple View and its background: <View android:layout_width=”match_parent” android:layout_height=”4dp” android:layout_above=”@id/bottom_bar” android:background=”@drawable/shadow”/> drawable/shadow.xml: <shape xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android”> <gradient android:startColor=”#1F000000″ android:endColor=”@android:color/transparent” android:angle=”90″ /> </shape> Also, there are no compatibility issues … Read more

android:elevation only have shadow effects on the bottom side, how to make the shadow effects show on top side?

August 17, 2023 by Tarik

There is a trick that can be used to display a shadow above a View. Basically we have to use two nested Layouts, where the outer Layout casts the shadow with an elevation and the inner layout sets the background. Then by setting a padding to the outer Layout, we can shift the inner Layout … Read more

ClassCastException android.widget.FrameLayout$LayoutParams to android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout$LayoutParams

August 11, 2023 by Tarik

What solved this issue for me: In MainActivity, add a new field for the LinearLayout, and assign value to it in onCreate() (this part just like emaleavil suggested): private LinearLayout linearLayout; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); // … linearLayout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.linearLayout); } Then in selectItem(), when calling closeDrawer(), simply pass linearLayout as … Read more

Get Fragment dynamically attached to ?

August 5, 2023 by Tarik

Let me wrap it up by a full answer 🙂 In this case, the dynamically added Fragment uses the ID of the container View (ViewGroup). ref: http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fragments.html#Adding Note: Each fragment requires a unique identifier that the system can use to restore the fragment if the activity is restarted (and which you can use to capture … Read more

Scale background image to wrap content of layout

June 13, 2023 by Tarik

I had the same problem (I think), and the only solution I could find was this: <RelativeLayout android:layout_width=”match_parent” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” > <View android:layout_width=”wrap_content” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:background=”@drawable/some_image” android:layout_alignTop=”@+id/actual_content” android:layout_alignBottom=”@id/actual_content” android:layout_alignLeft=”@id/actual_content” android:layout_alignRight=”@id/actual_content” /> <LinearLayout android:id=”@id/actual_content” android:layout_width=”match_parent” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:layout_alignParentTop=”true” > <!– more stuff … –> </LinearLayout> </RelativeLayout>

Android: when / why should I use FrameLayout instead of Fragment?

June 3, 2023 by Tarik

The detail container is a FrameLayout because the Fragment that is displayed will be replaced using FragmentTransaction‘s replace() method. The first argument to replace() is the ID of container whose Fragments will be replaced. If the FrameLayout in this example were replaced with a Fragment, then both the WorkStationListFragment and whatever detail Fragment is currently … Read more

Why is a FrameLayout used for fragments?

June 2, 2023 by Tarik

You can basically use RelativeLayout or LinearLayout it will still work,but the answer of your question is in FrameLayout‘s documentation : FrameLayout is designed to block out an area on the screen to display a single item. Generally, FrameLayout should be used to hold a single child view, because it can be difficult to organize … Read more

Android Fragment does not respect match_parent as height

May 7, 2023 by Tarik

I had the same problem and think it happens when you inflate the layout in the Fragment’s onCreateView with null, like you did here: mRootView = (ViewGroup) inflater.inflate(R.layout.list_content, null); Instead you have to do this: mRootView = (ViewGroup) inflater.inflate(R.layout.list_content,container, false); Where container is the Viewgroup. At least, that solved the problem for me.

Button always displays on top in FrameLayout

April 22, 2023 by Tarik

Update: in android 21+ after introduction of elevation one can play with elevation attribute of various widgets to put them on top of one another. here is a material design guide for elevation values. for api < 21 : This answer Buttons in Lollipop and higher have a default elevation to them which causes them … Read more

FrameLayout vs RelativeLayout for overlays

March 30, 2023 by Tarik

A common rule of thumb when choosing layouts is to select the combination that results in the smallest number of nested layout views. Specific to your question, RelativeLayout is larger and more capable than the much simpler FrameLayout. So for simple layouts, the latter is probably more efficient. But if using RelativeLayout and it’s added … Read more