Question

Right now I have views with layout_weight inside another view that also has the same attribute, which causes the outer view to be calculated exponentially. I’m considering nesting another set of views with weights inside of the inner view, but that would cause the outermost view to be calculated more times than I would like. I’m just splitting the areas up evenly (each view within a group all have the same weight), but I want everything to scale properly regardless of what size or DPI the screen is. Is there any other way to efficiently split views within another view?

Answer 1

DeeV’s answer to this question does a good job of it:

Swap your top LinearLayout with a RelativeLayout and align the two children to an >invisible View in the center like so:

<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/top"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <LinearLayout
      android:id="@+id/center_point"
      android:layout_width="0dp"
      android:layout_height="0dp"
      android:layout_centerInParent="true"/>

    <LinearLayout
      android:id="@+id/left_layout"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="match_parent"
      android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
      android:layout_alignRight="@+id/center_point>
    </Linearlayout>


    <LinearLayout
      android:id="@+id/right_layout"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="match_parent"
      android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
      android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/center_point>
    </Linearlayout>

</RelativeLayout>