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Mate Križanac
Mate Križanac

Reputation: 268

puting one imageView in front of the other in Android

i have couple of imageViews that i create programmatically, so here is my question, if i want to put one imageView on the other, how can i tell my app which imageView is going to be on top, and which one on the bottom ? This is how i create ImageViews, and that works fine.

        image = new ImageView(this);

    RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(
            RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
            RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);

    image.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.MATRIX);
    image.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_launcher);
    image.setId(1);
         params.setMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);
     Let's get the root layout and add our ImageView

    ((ViewGroup) mainLayout).addView(image, params);

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5501

Answers (2)

Mate Križanac
Mate Križanac

Reputation: 268

So this is what helped me in the end, i am gonna put it so it may be of use to someone else.

You can use this: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#bringToFront%28%29

Just use it like this 

YourImageView.bringToFront();

After you created both of the images and you need to put one on top. This works for most Views.

Upvotes: 4

telkins
telkins

Reputation: 10550

If you want to draw ImageViews on top of each other then you should use a FrameLayout. This is a layout that draws views like a stack, the first child will be drawn first and others will be drawn on top of the previous. For example:

<FrameLayout
 android:layout_width="match_parent"
 android:layout_height="match_parent">
    <ImageView1 ... />
    <ImageView2 ... />
</FrameLayout>

If your layout is like this, and ImageView1 and ImageView2 overlap, then ImageView2 will be drawn over ImageView1 because it is the second child and is drawn last.

Upvotes: 2

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