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Charlie-Blake
Charlie-Blake

Reputation: 11050

Square-shaped button Android

I want a layout of square-sized buttons with just 2 columns, pretty much like Windows Phone 7 start screen.

However, I do not want to make my own custom button, use libraries or use fixed values (as this would end up with density inconsistencies). I just want to achieve this using styles and XML, and I want the solution to be density-independant.

I've seen an app (Apollo) that achieves this, but I don't know how.

Is there any way to do this or am I forced to override onMeasure?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1291

Answers (1)

Ashwin
Ashwin

Reputation: 13547

If you want to change the height and width of the button according to the screen size you can do this in your activity.

 WindowManager w = getWindowManager(); 
 Display d = w.getDefaultDisplay(); 
        int sw = d.getWidth(); //Gives the screen width and height
        int sh = d.getHeight();

The use this to set the height and width of the button. Use the layout in which the button is contained. Here I have used Linear Layout as an example.

LinearLayout.LayoutParams params = button.getLayoutParams();
params.width = sw-padding;
params.heigth=sh;
button.setLayoutParams(params);

Upvotes: 1

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