android-relativelayout

I have experience with RelativeLayout but I've never run across a way to solve the problem I am presented with (aside from hard coding margin values, which I want to avoid.) I want to try to create something like the following image in a RelativeLayout: The box is its own View and I want to get the View that contains the orange circle to be centered on the top right corner of the View that contains the blue box. I tried with android:alignTop="boxView" and android:alignRight="boxView" but that put my orange circle completely within my box. I want it to be so that the circle is centered above

I am using PercentRelativeLayout from android percent support package. this is what I have in my layout. <android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout android:id="@+id/view_parent" app:layout_heightPercent="68%" android:visibility="invisible" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:background="@color/mountain_meadow" android:layout_alignParentTop="true" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> <View android:id="@+id/view_child" android:layout_width="match_parent" app:layout_heightPercent="30%" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" /> </android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout> I want

I need to achieve the following layout: I have two TextViews in a relative layout: the green one is fixed text with wrap_content , the black one has dynamic text with wrap_content . The black text can change and become very long. I want the black TextView to expand with the text until the green view reaches the end of the parent. If that happens, the black TextView should stop expanding and ellipsize the end. How can I achieve that? What I tried: <RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/parent" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" > <TextView android:id="@+id

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 library uses RelativeLayout . My question is when to use FrameLayout then, if not in cases like this? What are the disadvantages if I go the FrameLayout way? A common rule of thumb when choosing layouts is to select the combination that results in the smallest number of nested layout views. Specific to your question, RelativeLayout is larger and more