I created a custom view for Android which renders two inner views to store a key and a value in two columns. The class looks like this:
public class KeyValueRow extends RelativeLayout {
protected TextView mLabelTextView;
protected TextView mValueTextView;
public KeyValueRow(final Context context) {
super(context);
init(context, null, 0);
}
public KeyValueRow(final Context context, final AttributeSet attrs) {
super(context, attrs);
init(context, attrs, 0);
}
public KeyValueRow(final Context context,
final AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
super(context, attrs, defStyle);
init(context, attrs, defStyle);
}
protected void init(final Context context,
final AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
View layout = ((LayoutInflater) context
.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE))
.inflate(R.layout.key_value_row, this, true); // line 46
mLabelTextView = (TextView) layout.findViewById(
R.id.key_value_row_label);
mValueTextView = (TextView) layout.findViewById(
R.id.key_value_row_value);
}
public void setLabelText(final String text) {
mLabelTextView.setText(text);
}
public void setValueText(final String text) {
mValueTextView.setText(text);
}
}
The associated layout file layout/key_value_row.xml looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:weightSum="1.0">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/key_value_row_label"
style="@style/KeyValueLabel"
android:layout_weight=".55"
tools:text="Label"/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/key_value_row_value"
style="@style/KeyValueValue"
android:layout_weight=".45"
tools:text="Value"/>
</LinearLayout>
This can be used as follows in a layout:
<com.example.myapp.customview.KeyValueRow
android:id="@+id/foobar"
style="@style/KeyValueRow" />
Until here everything works fine!
The challenge
Now, I want to allow custom settings for the layout_weight
attributes of both inner TextView
s. Therefore, I prepared the attributes in values/attrs.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<declare-styleable name="KeyValueRow">
<attr name="label_layout_weight" format="float" />
<attr name="value_layout_weight" format="float" />
</declare-styleable>
</resources>
First question would be: is float the correct format for layout_weight
?
Next, I would apply them in the layout file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:weightSum="1.0">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/key_value_row_label"
style="@style/KeyValueLabel"
android:layout_weight="?label_layout_weight"
tools:text="Label"/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/key_value_row_value"
style="@style/KeyValueValue"
android:layout_weight="?value_layout_weight"
tools:text="Value"/>
</LinearLayout>
Then they can be used in the example:
<com.example.myapp.customview.KeyValueRow
android:id="@+id/foobar"
style="@style/KeyValueRow"
custom:label_layout_weight=".25"
custom:value_layout_weight=".75" />
When I run this implementation the following exception is thrown:
Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: Invalid float: "?2130772062"
at java.lang.StringToReal.invalidReal(StringToReal.java:63)
at java.lang.StringToReal.parseFloat(StringToReal.java:310)
at java.lang.Float.parseFloat(Float.java:300)
at android.content.res.TypedArray.getFloat(TypedArray.java:288)
at android.widget.LinearLayout$LayoutParams.<init>(LinearLayout.java:1835)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.generateLayoutParams(LinearLayout.java:1743)
at android.widget.LinearLayout.generateLayoutParams(LinearLayout.java:58)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:757)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:492)
at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:397)
at com.example.myapp.customview.KeyValueRow.init(KeyValueRow.java:46)
at com.example.myapp.customview.KeyValueRow.<init>(KeyValueRow.java:28)
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