How can I detect which layout is selected by Andro

Question

Assume I have an activity with three different layouts in different resource folders. For example:

layout-land/my_act.xml
layout-xlarge/my_act.xml
layout-xlarge-land/my_act.xml

In different devices and different positions one of them is selected by Android.
How can I find out which one is selected programmatically?

Does Android have any API that returns these layouts to the program?

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Edit: Graham Borland's solution has a problem in some situations that I mentioned in the comments.

Answer 1

I dont know the exact way to find it. But we can find it in different way.

Add one textview in all the layouts.(visibility hidden). Assign values like xlarge, land, xlarge-land accordingly.

In program, get the value from textview. Somehow we can get to know like this.

Answer 2

You can get info about screen orientation and size from Resources object. From there you can understand which layout is used.

getResources().getConfiguration().orientation; - returns either Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT or Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE.

int size = getResources().getConfiguration().screenLayout; - returns mask of screen size. You can test against Small, Normal, Large, xLarge sizes. For example:

if ((size & Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_XLARGE)==Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_XLARGE)

Answer 3

I am assuming you are using setContentView(int resID) to set the content of your activities.

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METHOD 1 (This is my answer)

Now in all your layouts make sure that the root view always has the right tag:

example:

layout-xlarge/main.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:tag="xlarge-landscape"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello" />

</LinearLayout>

layout-small/main.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:tag="small"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello" />

</LinearLayout>

Now let your activities extend this activity:

package shush.android.screendetection;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

public class SkeletonActivity extends Activity {

    protected String resourceType;

    @Override
    public void setContentView(int layoutResID) {
        LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
        View view = inflater.inflate(layoutResID, null);
        resourceType = (String)view.getTag();
        super.setContentView(view);
    }
}

In this case, you can use the resourceType to know what is the resource identifier used.

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METHOD 2 (This was my answer but before posting I thought of the better one)

Now in all your layouts make sure that the root view always has the right tag:

example:

layout-xlarge/main.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:tag="xlarge-landscape"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello" />

</LinearLayout>

layout-small/main.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:tag="small"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello" />

</LinearLayout>

Now let your activities extend this activity:

package shush.android.screendetection;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

public class SkeletonActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void setContentView(int layoutResID) {
        LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
        View view = inflater.inflate(layoutResID, null);
        fix(view, view.getTag());
        super.setContentView(view);
    }

    private void fix(View child, Object tag) {
        if (child == null)
            return;

        if (child instanceof ViewGroup) {
            fix((ViewGroup) child, tag);
        }
        else if (child != null) {
            child.setTag(tag);
        }
    }

    private void fix(ViewGroup parent, Object tag) {
        for (int i = 0; i < parent.getChildCount(); i++) {
            View child = parent.getChildAt(i);
            if (child instanceof ViewGroup) {
                fix((ViewGroup) child, tag);
            } else {
                fix(child, tag);
            }
        }
    }
}

In this case all your views in your hierarchy will have the same tag.

Answer 4

Your question is as same as this How to get layout xml file path?
You can add a Hidden Text View with corresponding Folder names in the xml Get the String in the text view by

TextView path = (TextView)findViewbyid(R.id.hiddentextview); 
 String s =  path.gettext().tostring();

Make sure that all the id's of the text view are same.

Example

if your xml is in `normal-mdpi` in hidden textview hard code `normal-mdpi`
if your xml is in `large-mdpi` in hidden textview hard code `large-mdpi`

Answer 5

You can set a different android:tag attribute on the views in each different resource file, and read the tag back at runtime with View.getTag().

Example:

layout-xlarge-land/my_act.xml

<View
    android:id="@+id/mainview"
    android:tag="xlarge-landscape"
/>

layout-xlarge/my_act.xml

<View
    android:id="@+id/mainview"
    android:tag="xlarge-portrait"
/>

MyActivity.java

String tag = view.getTag();
if (tag.equals("xlarge-landscape") {
    ...
}

Answer 6

My answer is implemented from @Graham Borland

 @Override
    public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
        super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
        DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
        getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
        switch(metrics.densityDpi){
             case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_LOW:

             if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE)
             {
               Toast.makeText(this, "landscape", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
               String tag = view.getTag();
               if (tag.equals("small-landscape") {
                .....
              }
             } 
            else if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT) 
            {
            Toast.makeText(this, "portrait", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
             String tag = view.getTag();
               if (tag.equals("small-potrait") {
                .....
              }
            }
            break;

             case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_MEDIUM:

             if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE)
             {
               Toast.makeText(this, "landscape", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
               String tag = view.getTag();
               if (tag.equals("medium-landscape") {
                .....
              }
             } 
            else if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT) 
            {
            Toast.makeText(this, "portrait", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
             String tag = view.getTag();
               if (tag.equals("medium-potrait") {
                .....
              }
            }
             break;

             case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_HIGH:

               if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE)
             {
               Toast.makeText(this, "landscape", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
               String tag = view.getTag();
               if (tag.equals("large-landscape") {
                .....
              }
             } 
            else if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT) 
            {
            Toast.makeText(this, "portrait", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
             String tag = view.getTag();
               if (tag.equals("large-potrait") {
                .....
              }
            }
             break;
        }

This will work in API lavel 4 or higher.