Get the location of an imageview

Question

Hi so I'm trying to get the location of an imageview in android using

xPosition = view.getLeft();
yPosition = view.getTop();

But it keeps returning 0 no matter where the imageview happens to be. The same also occurs when using

view.getLocationOnScreen(int[] location);

Does anybody have any ideas why this might be?

Possible duplicate of [How to get the absolute coordinates of a view](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2224844/how-to-get-the-absolute-coordinates-of-a-view) — RominaV, May 29 '16 at 15:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '16 at 15:35

You can use those methods after onCreate has completed. One way to do it is this inside the onCreate method is this:

view.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
        @Override
        public void onGlobalLayout() {

            //do your thnig here.....

            if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 16) { 
                view.getViewTreeObserver().removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);                                                                                        
            } 
            else { 
                view.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this);  
            } 
        }
    });

The globalLayoutListener will be notified when the layout is built and run the onGlobalLayout method. Be sure to remove the globalLayoutListener after you do what you want to do.

Get the location of an imageview

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