Setting parameters on child views of a RelativeLayout

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I'm having trouble finding exactly the syntax I need to use to set the paramters on child views of a relative layout. I have a root relative layout that I want to set 2 child textviews next to each other like this

---------- ---------
| Second | | First |
---------- ---------

So I have

public class RL extends RelativeLayout{

    public RL(context){

        TextView first = new TextView(this);
        TextView second = new TextView(this);

        first.setText('First');
        first.setId(1);

        second.setText('Second');
        second.setId(2);

        addView(first, new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
    LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 
    LayoutParams.ALLIGN_PARENT_RIGHT ???);

        addView(first, new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
    LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 
    LayoutParams.ALLIGN_RIGHT_OF(first.getId()) ???);

    }
}

How do I set the relative alignments?

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 07 '10 at 22:44

public class RL extends RelativeLayout {

    public RL(Context context) {
        super(context);

        TextView first = new TextView(context);
        TextView second = new TextView(context);

        first.setText("First");
        first.setId(1);

        second.setText("Second");
        second.setId(2);

        RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lpSecond = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(
            LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        addView(second, lpSecond);

        RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lpFirst = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(
            LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
        lpFirst.addRule(RelativeLayout.RIGHT_OF, second.getId());
        addView(first, lpFirst);
    }

}

You only need ALIGN_PARENT_RIGHT if you want the right edge of the view to line up with the right edge of its parent. In this case, it would push the 'first' view off the side of the visible area!

Yeah my code is kind of wrong. That's what I'm doing, first is align_parent_right, and then second is align_left_of first.id() — Falmarri, Oct 08 '10 at 00:22

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 07 '10 at 20:06

Falmarri, you'll need to use the 'addRule(int)' method.

RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lp = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams
    (LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
lp.addRule(RIGHT_OF, first.getId());

The full list of constants that can be used for addRule can be found here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/RelativeLayout.html

And here is the addRule method reference: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.html#addRule(int,%20int)

Setting parameters on child views of a RelativeLayout

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