How to lay out Views in RelativeLayout programmatically?

Question

I\'m trying to achieve the following programmatically (rather than declaratively via XML):

Answer 1

Cut the long story short: With relative layout you position elements inside the layout.

1. create a new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams

   RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lp = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(...)
   

   (whatever... fill parent or wrap content, absolute numbers if you must, or reference to an XML resource)

2. Add rules: Rules refer to the parent or to other "brothers" in the hierarchy.

   lp.addRule(RelativeLayout.BELOW, someOtherView.getId())
   lp.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_LEFT)
   

3. Just apply the layout params: The most 'healthy' way to do that is:

   parentLayout.addView(myView, lp)
   

Watch out: Don't change layout from the layout callbacks. It is tempting to do so because this is when views get their actual sizes. However, in that case, unexpected results are expected.