Question

HI All,

I m working on one application in android. On the Home screen i have 6 buttons.

like this. on the buttons a have one transparent view which shows the current date.

Problem:

1. I can not design the layout for the same.
2. I am not getting how to overlap two views on the same window.
3. if i make six buttons and after that if i take another layout the background layout is hiden and it is not shown at all.

This thing i know is we need two views on one view i can display 6 buttons and on anthoer view i can display date. but how?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

check this layout it must help you to solve your problem

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout
   xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent">
  <RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent">
  <Button
   android:text="Hello"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
   android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"></Button>
  <Button
   android:text="Hello"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:layout_centerInParent="true"
   android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"></Button>
   <Button
   android:text="Hello"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
   android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"></Button>
   <Button
   android:text="Hello"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
   android:layout_alignParentRight="true"></Button>
    <Button
   android:text="Hello"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:layout_centerInParent="true"
   android:layout_alignParentRight="true"></Button>
    <Button
   android:text="Hello"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
   android:layout_alignParentRight="true"></Button>
  </RelativeLayout>
  <ImageView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"

        android:src="@drawable/icon"/>
  </FrameLayout>

to make image transparent see this