Question

I have 4 buttons A,B,C,D on a RelativeLayout.

The button C is sometimes visible, sometimes not – depending on some condition which is set expliticly everytime before the layout appears.

If all buttons are visible I like to position the buttons like this:

A

B

C

D

Otherwise if C is not visible like this

A

B

D

Since I use android:layout_below="@+id/buttonX" to position the buttons I do not know what to do with the conditional C and D buttons.

What would be the best way to do this?

Answer 1

Although I don’t like nesting views, a simple solution would be to include your bottom two buttons in a LinearLayout

Ex.

<RelativeLayout>

     <A>
     <B>

     <LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical">
       <C>
       <D>
     </LinearLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

That way you can set the LinearLayout below B and it wouldn’t matter if C or D was missing