Android layout that uses the screen to display views that can be stacked on top of each other, with the most recent child added on top.
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        What are the differences between LinearLayout, RelativeLayout, and AbsoluteLayout?
I am confused about the difference between LinearLayout, RelativeLayout, and AbsoluteLayout. 
Could someone please tell me the exact differences between them? 
         
    
    
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        Full screen background image in an activity
I see many applications that use a full-screen image as background.
This is an example:
I want to use this in a project, the best way I've found so far to do this is to use an image with a large size, put it in a ImageView and use android:…
         
    
    
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        What does FrameLayout do?
I'm new to programming. I was using Graphical Layout then when I was reading xml file, I saw FrameLayout. Then I searched, but I couldn't find something useful. What is FrameLayout and what does it do?
         
    
    
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        Android center view in FrameLayout doesn't work
I have a FrameLayout in which I have 2 controls: 
- a custom view which draws a image and some text on it
- a textview with a text
I want to center both in the FrameLayout but I can't manage to do it. The Texview is centered just fine, my cusom view…
         
    
    
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        How to disable behind view click event Framelayout
Here i have one view pager activity which has one imageview and 2 overlay bars. there overlay bars i made using android xml file layout itself.
Here my requirement is like that 
1) single tap on view pager's imageview first time  = show top and…
         
    
    
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        getHeight returns 0 for all Android UI objects
I'm building a UI, and it's all static defined in the XML. All of it has weights all over the place, and while it looks right, I wanted to see that things actually have the right height and all. The problem is that no matter where I call…
         
    
    
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        FrameLayout vs RelativeLayout for overlays
I need to implement an overlay (translucent) screen for my app, something similar to Showcase View
My guess was to use FrameLayout for this usecase, because it is used to stack items on top of each other. But I was surprised to see that the above…
         
    
    
        dev
        
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        Button always displays on top in FrameLayout
I have FrameLayout like this:
     
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        Android Fragment does not respect match_parent as height
Sorry for the huge code dump, but I'm truly lost.
MyActivity.java onCreate:
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_singlepane_empty);
mFragment = new PlacesFragment();
getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
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        Android: when / why should I use FrameLayout instead of Fragment?
I am building a layout for large screens, that is supposed to consist of 2 different parts, a left one and a right one. For doing that I thought using 2 Fragments is the right choice. 
Then I had a look on the example of the navigation with the…
         
    
    
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        Why is a FrameLayout used for fragments?
Wherever I look, FrameLayout seems to be used as the FragmentContainer.
Why is FrameLayout always seen with Fragments?
         
    
    
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        Scale background image to wrap content of layout
I have a layout that contains some text fields and has a background image that's displayed at the top of my activity.  I'd like the background image to scale to wrap the content (don't care about aspect ratio).  However, the image is larger than…
         
    
    
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        Get Fragment dynamically attached to ? 
        Well, i got a simple :
 
         
    
    
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        android:elevation only have shadow effects on the bottom side, how to make the shadow effects show on top side?
I use a framelayout at the bottom of an activity, in order to show the shadow effects on the fragment, I add android:elevation. But the shadow effects only appear in the bottom side not on top side, any one could give me some advice?
        
            
            
                
                    
    
    
         
    
    
                
            
        
     
 
    
    
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        ClassCastException android.widget.FrameLayout$LayoutParams to android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout$LayoutParams
I'm working on the Navigation Drawer for Android.
As per my requirement I was to display gridview and listview of items in the navigation drawer. I have created a linearLayout in the layout xml file and placed the two widgets(Grid view, and…
         
    
    
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