I have recently created a custom view to test the StaticLayout.getHeight() method and I found out that it is really inconsistent. Let me write down the code first before I explain what is wrong:
This is my MainActivity.java
package com.ayto.android.test;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
RelativeLayout mainParent = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.mainActivity);
RelativeLayout childRelativeLayout = (RelativeLayout) getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.activity_test3,null);
noteLayout testNoteLayout = new noteLayout(this);
testNoteLayout.addView(childRelativeLayout);
mainParent.addView(testNoteLayout);
}
}
This is my custom layout:
package com.ayto.android.test;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.RectF;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;
public class noteLayout extends ViewGroup {
public noteLayout(Context activityContext)
{
super(activityContext);
}
@Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
RelativeLayout mainParent = (RelativeLayout) getParent();
for (int i = 0; i < getChildCount(); i++) {
RelativeLayout child = (RelativeLayout) getChildAt(i);
child.measure(MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec((mainParent.getWidth() / 2), MeasureSpec.EXACTLY), MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec((int) (child.getChildAt(0).getMeasuredHeight()), MeasureSpec.EXACTLY));
}
setMeasuredDimension(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
}
@Override
protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int l, int t, int r, int b) {
int numberOfChild = getChildCount();
for (int i = 0;i<numberOfChild;i++){
View childView = getChildAt(i);
float childHeight = (float) childView.getMeasuredHeight();
float childWidth = (float) childView.getMeasuredWidth();
RectF rect = new RectF();
rect.bottom = childHeight;
rect.top = 20;
rect.left = 20;
rect.right = childWidth+20;
childView.layout((int) rect.left, (int) rect.top, (int) rect.right, (int) rect.bottom);
}
}
}
This is my activity_main.xml:
<RelativeLayout 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" android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" tools:context=".MainActivity"
android:id="@+id/mainActivity">
/>
</RelativeLayout>
This is my activity_test3.xml that I inflated:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#EF5350">
<com.ayto.android.test.titleTextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/titleTextView"
android:textSize="18sp"
android:text="sadasdas das dasd asd as dasdasdasdsad sad asd asd asdasdasdsa sa zvczz xczxczxczx sadasasdsadsadsaasd "
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
Now my problem is that in my custom Layout, I tell its child which is a relativeLayout to measure itself. The relativeLayout is basically the relativeLayout from the activity_test3.xml which contains the custom view I created called titleTextView. In this view I override the onMeasure() method and use a staticLayout to obtain a height to set. Then my relativeLayout which is the parent of titleTextView basically measure itself and has the constraint from its child which is the titleTextView(See the Code Above to Clarify any confusion cause it is really hard to explain).
My problem is this that the relativeLayout height comes out to be smaller than than what is needed and hence it clip the child. Here are some image:
Furthermore, you can see, the height is really inconsistent for both the different devices and I thought that staticLayout.getHeight() suppose to return a consistent pixel size. I am not so sure how to fix it and would like help.
Note: I have tried multiplying the pixel size return by staticLayout.getHeight by the density and it becomes too large to perfectly fit the text inside it.
