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Squonk
Squonk

Reputation: 48871

Set position / size of UI element as percentage of screen size

I'm trying to work out if it's possible to use percentage positions/sizes when creating a layout. What I want is something like this...

^
|
|
| 68%
|
|
v
Gallery (height equivalent of 16% total screen size)
^
| 16%
v

I'm testing on a device which in landscape has a display of 800x480 actual pixels and I'm currently forcing it with the following...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" > 
    <Gallery 
        android:id="@+id/gallery"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="80px"
        android:layout_marginTop ="320px"
    />
</RelativeLayout>

Obviously I don't want to hard-code fixed px units but I can't use 68% or 0.68 for layout_marginTop (for example). I've looked at dp units but I'm not sure if I can do it that way either.

I have to admit UI design is a weak point of mine so any advice would be gratefully received.

EDIT: For future reference if anyone is looking for a similar answer, following Alan Moore's suggestion I have the following working exactly how I want it...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:background="@drawable/bground"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="0.68"
        android:background="@android:color/transparent"
    />
    <Gallery 
        android:id="@+id/gallery"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="0.16"
    />
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="0.16" 
        android:background="@android:color/transparent"
    />
</LinearLayout>

I managed to find some other examples of using layout_weight and decided to set the TextView heights to 0dp and also used floats for the weights. Working great. :)

Upvotes: 79

Views: 115210

Answers (5)

Ujwal Agrawal
Ujwal Agrawal

Reputation: 474

The above problem can also be solved using ConstraintLayout through Guidelines.

Below is the snippet.

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

<android.support.constraint.Guideline
    android:id="@+id/upperGuideLine"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    app:layout_constraintGuide_percent="0.68" />

<Gallery
    android:id="@+id/gallery"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="0dp"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@+id/lowerGuideLine"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/upperGuideLine" />

<android.support.constraint.Guideline
    android:id="@+id/lowerGuideLine"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    app:layout_constraintGuide_percent="0.84" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

Upvotes: 10

Alan Moore
Alan Moore

Reputation: 6575

I think what you want is to set the android:layout_weight,

http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-linearlayout.html

something like this (I'm just putting text views above and below as placeholders):

  <LinearLayout
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:weightSum="1">
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="68"/>
    <Gallery 
        android:id="@+id/gallery"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"

        android:layout_weight="16"
    />
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="16"/>

  </LinearLayout>

Upvotes: 74

rahul.ramanujam
rahul.ramanujam

Reputation: 5628

Use the PercentRelativeLayout or PercentFrameLayout from the Percent Supoort Library

<android.support.percent.PercentFrameLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
     <TextView
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          app:layout_heightPercent="68%"/>
     <Gallery 
          android:id="@+id/gallery"
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          app:layout_heightPercent="16%"/>
     <TextView
          android:layout_width="fill_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:layout_width="match_parent"/>
</android.support.percent.PercentFrameLayout>

Upvotes: 18

joseph_morris
joseph_morris

Reputation: 765

For TextView and it's descendants (e.g., Button) you can get the display size from the WindowManager and then set the TextView height to be some fraction of it: 

Button btn = new Button (this);
android.view.Display display = ((android.view.WindowManager)getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay(); 
btn.setHeight((int)(display.getHeight()*0.68));

Upvotes: 18

Finn Larsen
Finn Larsen

Reputation: 2199

Take a look at this:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/DisplayMetrics.html

You can get the heigth of the screen and it's simple math to calculate 68 percent of the screen.

Upvotes: 1

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