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Moon_Watcher
Moon_Watcher

Reputation: 468

Android widgets are incorrectly positioned

I'm new to Android programming, and started using Android Studio to develop a very simple app. However, using the "Design" view in the XML file, the widgets are not being correctly placed.

See the image - there are two widgets - Button and TextView. They are positioned at different places within the "Design" view, but they show in the left top corner in the emulator.

Why is this happening?UI snapshot

Upvotes: 0

Views: 154

Answers (1)

akshay_shahane
akshay_shahane

Reputation: 4643

Your button view is using tools attribute which is only work in preview not on device make sure you remove them and use appropriate attributes

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tv"
        android:text="adhfbkj"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"/>

    <Button
        android:text="button"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/tv"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"/>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

Upvotes: 1

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