How can you tell when a layout has been drawn?

Question

I have a custom view that draws a scrollable bitmap to the screen. In order to initialize it, i need to pass in the size in pixels of the parent layout object. But during th

Answer 1

When onMeasure is called the view gets its measured width/height. After this, you can call layout.getMeasuredHeight().

Answer 2

A really easy way is to simply call post() on your layout. This will run your code the next step, after your view has already been created.

YOUR_LAYOUT.post( new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        int width  = YOUR_LAYOUT.getMeasuredWidth();
        int height = YOUR_LAYOUT.getMeasuredHeight(); 
    }
});