Question

is there a way to move the whole screen content outside the screen bounds, with titlebar and all, on the left for example, i tried

content = ((LinearLayout) act.findViewById(android.R.id.content)
                .getParent());

to get the screen content and add a margin to it

FrameLayout.LayoutParams pr = (android.widget.FrameLayout.LayoutParams) content
                    .getLayoutParams();
            pr.rightMargin = xOffset;
            content.setLayoutParams(pr);

but it doesnt work, the margin appears but the content is not moved just resized to fit the screen, anyone know how to do this the simple way?

Answer 1

you can set the margin in negative(-) values.
for example if your want the layout to move upper use this:

android:marginTop = "-50dip or more u can put"