Yeah, I would like to do that. What sort of View would I parent off of though? AbsoluteLayout is the only type of layout that I can find that will allow me to assign coordinates to.
How would I write a layout to do this? On Dec 21, 5:42 pm, Paul Turchenko <paul.turche...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would suggest creating your own layout for this purpose. > > On Dec 21, 10:01 pm, k_day <kevin.r....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I understand the problems with assigning a fixed position to UI > > components, but I would like to use AbsoluteLayout in a way such that > > the position of the components are chosen dynamically, calculated > > based on the screen size. > > > Here is why I am thinking this may be easiest: > > > I want to display a nXm grid of imageViews on the screen (n,m chosen > > by the user) with 0 padding betweeen the imageViews. With > > absoluteLayout, I could easily choose the size of the imageViews and > > in a way that maximizes the amount of the screen that is used. > > > The reason that using relativeLayout or LineraLayouts may not work for > > this is because when a user touches an image in this grid, I would > > like it to "pulse" (quickly scale larger than back to its normal > > size). If I scale an imageView using realtive or linear layout, it > > would resize the adjacent imageViews (since the padding is 0), which I > > don't want. I would prefer permitting temporary overlapping of the > > imageViews. > > > This is currently the approach I have taken, except instead of > > changing the position of imageViews, I am just drawing bitmaps to the > > canvas at the locations I calculated. I can't use the animation > > framework, however, on bitmaps that I draw to a canvas. > > > Is this an acceptable use for AbsoluteLayout, or is there a better way > > to achieve what I want to do here? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
