Question

I have a big problem. I want to create a control for android in which the user sees an image and over lapping this image are smaller icons/image which are positioned relative to background image.

The smaller icons can be selected.

I really do not know how to go about it.

Answer 1

You could do this by having a clean image as background, like this:

and then you could have TextViews within a RelativeLayout with the names for example, and on every textView you can set the attribute clickable to your method.
Something like this:

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/nevada"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignTop="@+id/Oregon"
        android:layout_marginRight="50dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="21dp"
        android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/Cali"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:onClick="showState"
        android:text="@string/Nevada"
        android:textColor="@color/contact_map_text_color" />

and on your activity/fragment you will have your method that will be called by the View, in the example case: "showState"

Edit: its probably not the best approach but it certainly works