Question

Hy!

I’ve created a button on android in which the text looks like this: http://i51.tinypic.com/2u4oaww.png
It looks like this because the activity is in landscape mode.What I want next is to rotate the text on the button for it to look normally, but I can figure out how this could be done.

I tried with animation, like this:

In res/anim/myanim.xml:

<rotate  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
           android:fromDegrees="0" 
           android:toDegrees="180"
           android:pivotX="50%"
           android:duration="0" />

 takePhoto = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnPhoto);
        takePhoto.setText(t);
        RotateAnimation ranim = (RotateAnimation)AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.myanim);
          ranim.setFillAfter(true);
        takePhoto.setAnimation(ranim);

But when I do this my button won’t appear on the screen no more!
Could someone tell me how could I fix that?Thanks

EDIT:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
android:orientation="horizontal">
    <LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_weight="1.0">
      <SurfaceView  
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
   android:id="@+id/surface_camera"
    />

    </LinearLayout>
    <LinearLayout android:layout_width="90dip"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">
        <Button 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
    android:id="@+id/btnPhoto"
    android:text="Take Photo"
    android:layout_gravity="bottom|left" 
/>
    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

This should fix the problem.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rotate  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
       android:fromDegrees="0" 
       android:toDegrees="-90"
       android:pivotX="50%"
       android:pivotY="50%"
       android:duration="0" />

First of all it seems you want to rotate it 90 ccw instead of 180. Also if you set the duration to something significant like 4 seconds, you’ll see that in your code the button will pivot outside the container becoming invisible, that’s why you’ll have to pivot in the center of the button.