Question

I have a RelativeLayout with the xml something like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:id="@+id/appHolder"
  android:layout_width="210dp"
  android:layout_height="100dp"
  android:background="@drawable/app_container_box"
  android:paddingBottom="10dp"
  android:paddingLeft="15dp"
  android:paddingRight="10dp"
  android:paddingTop="10dp" >
  ...
</RelativeLayout>

I want to programmatically modify the width of this layout based on some condition.

In the GetView() method, I have:

public View getView(int position, View recycledView, ViewGroup viewGroup) {
    View row = recycledView;
    Holder holder;
    row = inflater.inflate(R.layout.app_icon_tile, viewGroup, false);
    if (row == null) {
        /*
        * I added only the following `if` block
        * The rest is older code and was working fine
        */
        if (changeWidth) {
            row.setLayoutParams(new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(260, 100));
        }
        holder = new Holder();
        holder.icon = (ImageView) row.findViewById(R.id.gridAppIcon);
        holder.appTitle = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.gridAppTitle);
        row.setTag(holder);
    } else {
        holder = (Holder) row.getTag();
    }
    return (row);
}

But when running this code, my application crashes with the following stack trace:

FATAL EXCEPTION: main
java.lang.ClassCastException: android.widget.RelativeLayout$LayoutParams
       at android.widget.GridView.onMeasure(GridView.java:937)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8314)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3138)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureChildBeforeLayout(LinearLayout.java:1017)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.measureVertical(LinearLayout.java:386)
       at android.widget.LinearLayout.onMeasure(LinearLayout.java:309)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8314)
       at android.widget.RelativeLayout.measureChildHorizontal(RelativeLayout.java:581)
       at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onMeasure(RelativeLayout.java:365)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8314)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3138)
       at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8314)
       at android.view.ViewGroup.measureChildWithMargins(ViewGroup.java:3138)
       at android.widget.FrameLayout.onMeasure(FrameLayout.java:250)
       at android.view.View.measure(View.java:8314)
       at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:843)
       at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1866)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:880)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:638)
       at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Your problem lies here:

if (changeWidth) {
       row.setLayoutParams(new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(260, 100));
}

Because when you set layout params, they should be of parent’s type, not the view’s for which you’re creating params itself.

So for example if your RelativeLayout is in a ListView, it should get ListView.LayoutParams.