Question

I’ve been trying to add multiple textviews and buttons when onClick, and this is the best code I have found that actually works:

    RelativeLayout relative = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.RelativeLayout01);
    LinearLayout.LayoutParams lp = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
            (LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT), (LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));

    TextView tv = new TextView(getApplicationContext());
    tv.setLayoutParams(lp);
    tv.setText("Shift" + mShiftCount);

    EditText edittv = new EditText(getApplicationContext());
    edittv.setLayoutParams(lp);

    relative.addView(tv);
    relative.addView(edittv);

This seems to be the best code to add additional items that are alike to that of what I already have in my main.XML file.
My issue is that when these are added, they appear at the top of the screen and I am unsure how to add further parameters to the objects.
How would I go about placing the textview and edittext below my other elements specified in the XML?

Answer 1

What you need to do is create a RelativeLayout.LayoutParams (refer here) when you add the views like tv and edittv to the RelativeLayout. In your RelativeLayout.LayoutParams, you need to define the same parameters you would give to your other RelativeLayout objects. Here is an example:

RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
params.addRule(RelativeLayout.BELOW, R.id.idOfWhatYouWantToBeBelowOf);
addView(tv, params);