Question

Hi I’m new to Android and am facing the problem: how do I get the Height/Width of a view, which is placed in a relative layout? I tried getHeight() and getWidth() and both return 0.

I need to know whether this view has reached the end of the Layout so that I can place the next view to its right or below it.

or maybe there is a better way to do this without knowing the position of the current view?

edit:
I use this code to create an EditText and add it to the layout:

                EditText et1 = new EditText(context);
                RelativeLayout.LayoutParams p = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
                        ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
                p.addRule(RelativeLayout.RIGHT_OF,curView.getId());
                et1.setLayoutParams(p);
                et1.setId(loopid++);
                curLayout.addView(et1);
                curView=et1;

and then call:

            int[] location=new int[2];
            curView.getLocationOnScreen(location);
            Log.d("right:", String.valueOf(location[1]));

and it shows a 0.

Answer 1

You are calling getHeight()/getWidth() before the view can be laid out so it is returning 0. If you call it later in the lifecycle it will stop this issue.