How to detect a layout resize?

Question

Dianne Hackborn mentioned in a couple threads that you can detect when a layout as been resized, for example, when the soft keyboard opens or closes. Such a thread is this one... http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/d318901586313204/2b2c2c7d4bb04e1b

However, I didn't understand her answer: "By your view hierarchy being resized with all of the corresponding layout traversal and callbacks."

Does anyone have a further description or some examples of how to detect this? Which callbacks can I link into in order to detect this?

Thanks

Answer 1

One way is View.addOnLayoutChangeListener. There's no need to subclass the view in this case. But you do need API level 11. And the correct calculation of size from bounds (undocumented in the API) can sometimes be a pitfall. Here's a correct example:

public void onLayoutChange( View v, int left, int top, int right, int bottom,
  int leftWas, int topWas, int rightWas, int bottomWas )
{
    int widthWas = rightWas - leftWas; // right exclusive, left inclusive
    if( v.getWidth() != widthWas )
    {
        // width has changed
    }
    int heightWas = bottomWas - topWas; // bottom exclusive, top inclusive
    if( v.getHeight() != heightWas )
    {
        // height has changed
    }
}

Another way (as dacwe answers) is to subclass your view and override onSizeChanged.

Answer 2

Override onSizeChanged in your View!

Answer 3

My solution is to add an invisible tiny dumb view at the end of of the layout / fragment (or add it as a background), thus any change on size of the layout will trigger the layout change event for that view which could be catched up by OnLayoutChangeListener:

Example of adding the dumb view to the end of the layout:

 <View 
    android:id="@+id/theDumbViewId"
    android:layout_width="1dp"
    android:layout_height="1dp"
     />

Listen the event:

    View dumbView = mainView.findViewById(R.id.theDumbViewId);
    dumbView.addOnLayoutChangeListener(new OnLayoutChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onLayoutChange(View v, int left, int top, int right, int bottom, int oldLeft, int oldTop, int oldRight, int oldBottom) {
            // Your code about size changed
        }
    });