Get margin of a View

Question

How can I get the margin value of a View from an Activity? The View can be of any type.

After a bit of searching I found out ways to get padding of a view, but couldn\'

Answer 1

As others suggested, layout_margin# is the space between the parent's # edge and your view.

• # replaces "Left", "Right", "Top" or "Bottom"

Getting/setting margins worked for me with:

ViewGroup.MarginLayoutParams params = (ViewGroup.MarginLayoutParams) mView.getLayoutParams();
params.topMargin += 20;
mView.requestLayout();

Of course, my View was indeed a ViewGroup and the parent was a ViewGroup as well. In most cases, you should cast your layout params to the parent's View class LayoutParams (in this case it's ViewGroup and RelativeLayout)