TextView position in a RelativeLayout with background image

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Good morning,

I try to explain my scenario: there is an Activity with a background image representing a person who is speaking. I have to place my TextView exactly over the callout, so it seems that the person is speaking. Below of the TextView I have to put two buttons that allow to go to the previous message or to the main menu. How can I do this with a RelativeLayout? What happens when the activity is displayed by a device with a screen resolution different from the one that I used to debug the application?

Thanks, Nicola

can you post what you have done so far? You have to set the relativelayout at runtime based on the screen resolution of the device. — Smogger, Oct 21 '13 at 08:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 21 '13 at 08:46

simply use android:layout_alignLeft="@id/yourtextID and android:layout_alignRight="@id/yourTextID for your left and right Button that you are using. I wrote an example that I think may help you:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/rlText"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tvText"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Something that he said .." />
</RelativeLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignRight="@id/rlText" >

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/bRight"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Right" />
</LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@id/rlText" >

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/bLeft"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Left" />
</LinearLayout>

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 21 '13 at 09:04

Simply use this To Set BackGround Image to your relative Layout

RelativeLayout layout = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.Your_ID);
int resid=R.drawable.your_background_image;
layout.setBackgroundResource(resid);

For TextView Position use: android:layout_gravity,android:gravity

i hope this will help you...

TextView position in a RelativeLayout with background image

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