Question

I have a background in iPhone development, which may be a cause of some of my confusion with Android, which I am very new at developing.

My question is this: How to I create two TextViews, and specify their exact location on screen? For example, on the iPhone, I would create a UILabel, generate a rectangular frame that specified the label’s size and position, and then set this rectangle to the frame property of the UILabel.

If you can help me understand the similarities with Objective C and iOS’ UILabel, that would be most helpful.

Answer 1

Create a basic Android project in eclipse. You will be having a main.xml layout file in your project. You can open it in Eclipse using Ctrl+Shift+r and keying in main.xml

copy paste this in your xml after clearing its content.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:text="TextView One"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"></TextView>
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView2"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:text="TextView Two"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"></TextView>
</LinearLayout>