Question

I just know this is simple and in about 30 minutes time, I’ll hate myself…

I have a splashscreen which consists of a static image which fills the screen. So I simply set the background attribute of whatever root view I use in my layout.

The image has a blank area over which I need to place an “I accept” button. To deal with different resolutions, I must position it using a percentage of the display height – 58% is the spot.

I can’t use layout_weight because that sizes the button and absolutelayout (setting the y position in code) is deprecated.

How can I achieve this? I don’t care what viewgroup is the parent and I’m fine with having “blank” views filling up space.

I am aiming to do this entirely in layout XML to keep my code clean…

Thanks!

Answer 1

You say you can’t use layout_weight, but that’s your only option if you want to do it purely in XML. I don’t understand why you think you can’t use it anyway. Here’s an example of how you might do it:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/splash"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

   <View
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="58" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="42" >

            <!-- Place buttons here -->

    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>