Question

I am new to Android layout development and have been tasked with designing and developing an application.

I have created the absolute layout but it is giving me different ways to output in different android phone versions. For example, when I set the EditText, Button, TextView etc. in my phone, I get a perfect view but when it runs on the client’s phone it looks very bad.

It is very important for me to set the same view for different phones. I would appreciate if someone can provide code examples for controls in absolute layout so I can get the same output on all phones and set height and width so that they are same in phones with different resolutions.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you’re using AbsoluteLayout you’re already doing it wrong. 🙂 It’s deprecated precisely because it makes working with multiple screen sizes unnecessarily difficult, just as you’ve observed.

See RelativeLayout for a better approach. RelativeLayout lets you specify your layout in terms of rules, e.g. “Place view A along the top of the screen and stretch it to fill the full screen width. Place view B along the left edge below view A and let it be as tall as it needs to be to fit its content.”

You should also reference the link posted in yogsma’s answer for more general advice.