Zoom Content in a RelativeLayout

Question

I have my application for Android 2.1 where I have a root layout with children's that I can click, move and zoom. Everything is fine, as long as the root layout is not zoomed.

I have a setup like this;

<ZoomableRelativeLayout ...>  // Root, Moveable and zoomable
    <ImageView ....>
    <RelativeLayout ...> // Clickable, moveable and zoomable
    <RelativeLayout ...> // Clickable, moveable and zoomable
</ZoomableRelativeLayout>

And I like to zoom the content in my ZoomableRelativeLayout. I zoom my content like this in my ZoomableRelativeLayout class;

protected void dispatchDraw(Canvas canvas) {
    canvas.save(Canvas.MATRIX_SAVE_FLAG);
    canvas.scale(mScaleFactor, mScaleFactor, mXPointCenter, mYPointCenter);
    super.dispatchDraw(canvas);
    canvas.restore();
}

I get the Zoom result I want, but the problem is then I want to click on the Childviews to ZoomableRelativeLayout when canvas is scaled..

When scale is 1 (no zoom) the interaction with child views is fine, but as zoom as I zoom, its just like the touch area is translated or something, because I can't click them anymore.

How do I fix this? I tried to override onMeasure in ZoomableRelativeLayout like this;

@Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    int widthSize = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec);
    int heightSize = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
    setMeasuredDimension((int) (widthSize * mScaleFactor), (int) (heightSize * mScaleFactor));
}

Please help me if anyone can!

---

Ok, so I changed from using Matrix and using canvas scale to following;

@Override
protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int l, int t, int r, int b) {
    final int count = getChildCount();
    for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
        final View child = getChildAt(i);
        if (child.getVisibility() != View.GONE) {
            child.layout((int) mPosX, (int) mPosY, (int) (mPosX + getWidth()), (int) (mPosY + getHeight()));
        }
    }
}

@Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    int widthSize = MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec);
    int heightSize = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
    setMeasuredDimension((int) (widthSize * mScaleFactor), (int) (heightSize * mScaleFactor));
}

I still have my setup;

<ZoomableRelativeLayout ...>  // Root, Moveable and zoomable
    <ImageView ....>
    <RelativeLayout ...> // Clickable, moveable and zoomable
    <RelativeLayout ...> // Clickable, moveable and zoomable
</ZoomableRelativeLayout>

I can move around the layout and everything is fine, but when I zoom, the RelativeLayouts that is children's of ZoomableRelativeLayout doesnt gets zoomed.. How can I fix this? Do I have to subclass the RelativeLayouts and override onMeasure() or onLayout() or anything?

Answer 1

What you're doing in your dispatchDraw(), is actually just zooming the drawing of the view, and not the view itself. The location and size of the view (left, top, right, bottom) is still the same, although you see the view's drawing in the canvas is zooming. Try this: zoom your ZoomRelativeLayoutjust a little bit, and then interact with the children in their original (non-zoom) location, and see whether the children reacts.

To really zoom a view/viewgroup, you need to transform the actual view, and not only the drawing, i.e. transform the (l,t,r,b) of the view, then requestLayout() invalidate(), but this might hit on the performance.