More notes on layouts

More notes on layouts

Previous notes on layouts

This can be one of 

visible: default
invisible: not visible but space taken
gone: no space is taken either

Use view.setVisibility(int) to control this programmatically

setvisibility api ref


private void hideEditField()
    {
    	TextView tv =
    		(TextView)this.findViewById(R.id.editText1);
    	tv.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    }

findviewbyid and nested components in an android layout?

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how to create a horizontal line in an Android layout?

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<ImageView android:src="@drawable/us2"
  android:layout_width="50dp"
  android:layout_height="50dp"/>

I was removing the child views programmatically and hence the view cannot be found. Haha...

So there is no problem with locating nested components with findviewbyid

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here is a pertinent discussion on this

setsoftinputmode

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A link to the InputMethodManager

The input type method of a text field

please note this is a long document.

You are probably better of reading the java equivalent


private void hideKeyboard()
{
  InputMethodManager imm = 
    (InputMethodManager)getSystemService
	(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

  imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(
      this.m_editText.getWindowToken(), 0);     
}

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a quick look seem to yield no declarative solution