Question

I’m programmatically changing the margin of a layout inside a framelayout. My goal is to make a sliding view like the Facebook app. Is it possible to avoid this layout to be resized? This is my layout moving:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="48dp"
    android:background="#00a2ff"
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/left"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/ivGPSSearching"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:padding="4dp"
            android:src="@drawable/actionbar_gps_searching" />
    </LinearLayout>

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/ivStarsFilter"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingLeft="10dp"
        android:paddingRight="10dp"
        android:src="@drawable/actionbar_star" />
</LinearLayout>

I don’t want the left LinearLayout to be resized. I hope you will understand what I want 🙂

Thanks

Answer 1

To achieve something similar we extended a HorizontalScrollView – just overriding onInterceptTouchEvent and onTouchEvent to always return false.
Then you just need to put your menu in the left side and the content on the right (the content must match the screen width).

Finally setup the initial HorizontalScrollView scroll and bind to a button click a event to change the scroll position(horizontalScrollView.scrollTo or horizontalScrollView.smoothScrollTo).

I hope this helps.