I have a button in my application. I want to change its position programmatically. I have created a button in XML as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<Button android:text="@+id/Button01"
android:id="@+id/Button01"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="50px"
android:layout_marginTop="10px"
>
</Button>
</LinearLayout>
Suppose I want to set the position of the button as 100px from left (as layout_marginLeft="100px"). How can I do it programmatically? Please help me to solve the problem.
Luke, use the
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams rel_btn = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(
LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
rel_btn.leftMargin = myXPosition;
rel_btn.topMargin = myYPosition;
rel_btn.width = buttonW;
rel_btn.height = buttonH;
myButton.setLayoutParams(rel_btn);
You need to get the view and transform into a Java object, then call setPadding
on it.
some thing like this would work out
Button myBtn;
myBtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.Button01);
myBtn.setPadding(0,100,0,0);
Read more here:
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewGroup.MarginLayoutParams.html
You can't use setMargin()
with btn, use it with LayoutParams and then btn.setLayoutParams(params);
With Kotlin
you can use the below:
class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
val btnTag = Button(this).apply {
text = "Done"
setOnClickListener { finish() }
}
// btnTag.setOnClickListener { this.finish() }
val lp = RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT).apply {
addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM)
addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_RIGHT)
}
main_layout.addView(btnTag, lp)
}
Note: The layout should be RelativeLayout