Question

I created an object that extends android.view.View, overriding draw() and have it displaying on the screen. To put you in the picture, it is a display of digits to represent a game score. It’s displaying correctly horizontally, however, it is taking up the full height of the screen – pushing all other elements off the screen.

I’ve put layout_height="wrap_content" in the xml, but it has no effect.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

I’ve figured it out…

I was supposed to override onDraw() but that wasn’t what caused the problem.

The main thing was, I needed to override onMeasure() like this:

@Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    setMeasuredDimension(DIGIT_WIDTH * getNumberOfDigits(), DIGIT_HEIGHT);
}

DIGIT_WIDTH and DIGIT_HEIGHT are constants set to the dimensions of each digit image I used. getNumberOfDigits() is just a getter for a custom property set from the xml attributes.

Hope that helps anyone else coming across this.