Question

In an Activity, I am manually inflating a View object from XML as follows:

    LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from (this);
    View topView = inflater.inflate (R.layout.topview_layout, null);

I won’t be adding the view to any display hierarchy, but rather using it to generate bitmaps which I will then display. Since those bitmaps will be the size of my (main) screen, I try to cause the layout to occur:

    Display display = ((WindowManager) getSystemService (Context.WINDOW_SERVICE))
                        .getDefaultDisplay();
    topView.measure (display.getWidth (), display.getHeight ());
    topView.layout (0, 0, display.getWidth (), display.getHeight ());

(It is getting the proper size of the display in the above code.)

topView is a LinearLayout which contains a few other views. One of them is an ImageView:

    ImageView childView = (ImageView) pageView.findViewById (R.id.textArea);

However, this view never seems to be informed about its dimensions after the call to layout():

    int childViewWidth = childView.getWidth ();
    int childViewHeight = childView.getHeight ();

(The dimensions retrieved by the above code are 0,0.)

All of the above code occurs linearly, and is called from within my Activity subclass’ onCreate() method.

The layout XML I’m testing with is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:id="@+id/topView"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:background="@color/blue"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">
    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/textArea"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="@color/gold"/>
</LinearLayout>

I would most appreciate any clues!

NOTE: Edited to add the layout XML and the measure() call pointed out as missing by Romain Guy.

Answer 1

You need to call measure() before you call layout().