Android - Best way to overlay a play button on an image/thumbnail

Question

I have an android application which can playback audio/video and show pictures. For videos I want to overlay a play button on top of the preview image and also in list views.. R

Answer 1

I ended up using a FrameLayout like this:

Then I just set the visibility to View.VISIBLE to the preview play button for videos and left it gone for photos. For my list view I used the layer list method shown above because all of the thumbnails were the same dimension. Hope this helps someone else!

notice that the layout_gravity on the ImageView with id VideoPreviewPlayButton puts it at the bottom centered horizontally, and the 10dp paddingBottom moves it up a bit from the bottom.