Getting View's coordinates relative to the roo

Question

Can I get a View's x and y position relative to the root layout of my Activity in Android?

Answer 1

This is one solution, though since APIs change over time and there may be other ways of doing it, make sure to check the other answers. One claims to be faster, and another claims to be easier.

private int getRelativeLeft(View myView) {
    if (myView.getParent() == myView.getRootView())
        return myView.getLeft();
    else
        return myView.getLeft() + getRelativeLeft((View) myView.getParent());
}

private int getRelativeTop(View myView) {
    if (myView.getParent() == myView.getRootView())
        return myView.getTop();
    else
        return myView.getTop() + getRelativeTop((View) myView.getParent());
}

Let me know if that works.

It should recursively just add the top and left positions from each parent container. You could also implement it with a Point if you wanted.

Answer 2

Incase someone is still trying to figure this out. This is how you get the center X and Y of the view.

    int pos[] = new int[2];
    view.getLocationOnScreen(pos);
    int centerX = pos[0] + view.getMeasuredWidth() / 2;
    int centerY = pos[1] + view.getMeasuredHeight() / 2;

Answer 3

View rootLayout = view.getRootView().findViewById(android.R.id.content);

int[] viewLocation = new int[2]; 
view.getLocationInWindow(viewLocation);

int[] rootLocation = new int[2];
rootLayout.getLocationInWindow(rootLocation);

int relativeLeft = viewLocation[0] - rootLocation[0];
int relativeTop  = viewLocation[1] - rootLocation[1];

First I get the root layout then calculate the coordinates difference with the view.
You can also use the getLocationOnScreen() instead of getLocationInWindow().

Answer 4

I just found the answer here

It says: It is possible to retrieve the location of a view by invoking the methods getLeft() and getTop(). The former returns the left, or X, coordinate of the rectangle representing the view. The latter returns the top, or Y, coordinate of the rectangle representing the view. These methods both return the location of the view relative to its parent. For instance, when getLeft() returns 20, that means the view is located 20 pixels to the right of the left edge of its direct parent.

so use:

view.getLeft(); // to get the location of X from left to right
view.getRight()+; // to get the location of Y from right to left

Answer 5

No need to calculate it manually.

Just use getGlobalVisibleRect like so:

Rect myViewRect = new Rect();
myView.getGlobalVisibleRect(myViewRect);
float x = myViewRect.left;
float y = myViewRect.top;

Also note that for the centre coordinates, rather than something like:

...
float two = (float) 2
float cx = myViewRect.left + myView.getWidth() / two;
float cy = myViewRect.top + myView.getHeight() / two;

You can just do:

float cx = myViewRect.exactCenterX();
float cy = myViewRect.exactCenterY();

Answer 6

The Android API already provides a method to achieve that. Try this:

Rect offsetViewBounds = new Rect();
//returns the visible bounds
childView.getDrawingRect(offsetViewBounds);
// calculates the relative coordinates to the parent
parentViewGroup.offsetDescendantRectToMyCoords(childView, offsetViewBounds); 

int relativeTop = offsetViewBounds.top;
int relativeLeft = offsetViewBounds.left;

Here is the doc