Question

Basically the title speaks for itself.
I would like to put elements on top of different elements. I could use Absolute Layout, but it is said to be deprecated.

Is there any other way to do it? And if no, why would they deprecate AbsoluteLayout?

Answer 1

The default behavior of RelativeLayout will stack all of the elements on top of each other in the top left corner so this layout:

<RelativeLayout
android:width="fill_parent"
android:height="fillparent">

<ImageView
android:width="wrap_content"
android:height="wrap_content"
android:src="@drawable/img1" />

<ImageView
android:width="wrap_content"
android:height="wrap_content"
android:src="@drawable/img2" />

</RelativeLayout>

Will stack the two images one ontop of the other in the top left of the screen. Relative layout offers many other attributes that will allow you to move the views to different positions on the screen. But the idea is that it scales to different sizes better because you won’t be hardcoding x,y values for where you want elements to go.