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Caner
Caner

Reputation: 59168

Android How to create a View Programmatically

I need to create a view programmatically. The controls(buttons, labels, etc.) and their positions are known only at runtime.

Here I found "Defining a Layout Programmatically": http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-layout/

but I need to be able to draw components at exact locations so LinearLayout, TableLayout etc. doesn't work for me.

How can I do this?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 27154

Answers (2)

MrJre
MrJre

Reputation: 7161

Create a custom ViewGroup; this allows you to manage placements of each of the children you have (buttons, labels, etc) manually. Check this vid from the google IO event in 2009 titled 'Make your Android UI Fast and Efficient', specifically from about 43 minutes onward for more details.

Upvotes: 4

Pengume
Pengume

Reputation: 570

I would take a look at the Lunar lander example in the android API samples here http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/LunarLander/index.html. This helped me out tremendously when starting out making games and having to dynamically draw to the screen.

Upvotes: 0

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