I just want to add that it's rather annoying, dirty and hacky but possible to switch from the default LinearLayout to RelativeLayout.
Example: https://gist.github.com/imhotep/3d33f262dfe355d2b4b5 I used that for one of my android plugins. On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org> > wrote: > > Is it that you think LinearLayout is the best default Layout? Or is it > that > > you don't want to make a non-backwards-compatible change? > > > > It's definitely 80% the latter. You're forgetting the "I think that > RelativeLayout could cause weird things to happen", which is my other > 20%. Feel free to re-open and prioritize it. > > > Be happy to stick this on the "should do for 4.0" list (it's not urgent > by > > any means). But if you're arguing for LinearLayout being a better option, > > then I'd like to know why. > > If we can get the soft keyboard detection working, I'd rather keep our > custom layout. So far, I haven't had any luck. > > > > > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> I disagree. iOS is not Android and doesn't have to deal with the > Android > >> life cycle or intents. I don't think supporting extending > CordovaActivity > >> is a good idea, especially considering other libraries that the view > may be > >> used with will also be extending the Activity. > > > > > >> If people want to do Android development and not Cordova development, > >> which sounds like the case here, they should have to handle their own > >> intents. > >> > >> Also, if we're counting this as an ATI change, we can't do it until a > major > >> version. > >> On May 14, 2014 7:36 AM, "Andrew Grieve" <agri...@chromium.org> wrote: > >> > >> > I think Lisa's reasons make sense. > >> > > >> > True, you can make your own Activity, but there's a lot of value in > not > >> > requiring this. iOS has one level of indirection for the UIWebView (it > >> > lives in a generic UIView), and that allows the exact use-case that is > >> > being discussed here. > >> > > >> > > >> > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > > >> > > Ok, here's my opinion on LinearLayout vs RelativeLayout and why I > >> closed > >> > > the bug as "Won't Fix" > >> > > > >> > > 1. We went with LinearLayout because it was the easiest at the time. > >> We > >> > > experimented with FrameLayout as well, and decided to stick with > >> > > LinearLayout because it was the easiest to setup programmatically. > >> > > 2. CordovaActivity is not intended to be extended or modified in any > >> way. > >> > > If people need a custom activity, they should create their own and > >> > > implement CordovaInterface and use the CordovaWebView. That's why we > >> > > created the CordovaWebView. > >> > > > >> > > The fact is that we actually use a class called > >> > > LinearLayoutSoftKeyboardDetect, which at one point detected when the > >> > > keyboard was visible by measuring the screen to see if the WebView > and > >> > the > >> > > Layout containing it resized, but since the keyboard's behaviour > >> changed > >> > in > >> > > 3.x, this has been broken for quite a long time and simply doesn't > >> work. > >> > > That being said, changing this would be non-trivial, and I don't see > >> any > >> > > benefit in doing another refactor. > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Lisa Seacat DeLuca < > >> ldel...@us.ibm.com > >> > > >wrote: > >> > > > >> > > > I opened a JIRA issue on the android default webview layout use > of a > >> > > > LinearLayout. Chatting with our product team that uses Cordova > >> they've > >> > > had > >> > > > a number of customer requests to use a RelativeLayout. I wanted > to > >> get > >> > > > some input from people to see if there is a reason we decided to > go > >> > with > >> > > > the LinearLayout instead of a RelativeLayout in case there is a > good > >> > > reason > >> > > > and someone goes and fixes this issue. :) > >> > > > > >> > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6681 > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > Lisa > >> > > > > >> > > > Lisa Seacat DeLuca > >> > > > Mobile Engineer | t: +415.787.4589 | *ldel...@apache.org*< > >> > > ldel...@apache.org>| | > >> > > > *ldel...@us.ibm.com* <ldel...@us.ibm.com> | *lisaseacat.com*< > >> > > http://www.lisaseacat.com/>| [image: > >> > > > follow @LisaSeacat on twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/LisaSeacat > >| > >> > > [image: > >> > > > follow Lisa Seacat DeLuca on linkedin]< > >> > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaseacat> > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > >> >
