But isn't the logical parent of the child - it's layout parent. in that i've set the width explicitly.
On Sunday, May 11, 2014 9:12:00 AM UTC-4, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: > > Yep: a child with alignParentRight / alignParentBottom will cause the > parent (the RelativeLayout) to stretch to the entire width / height of > *its* parent. > > -- K > > > 2014-05-11 17:05 GMT+04:00 Piren <[email protected] <javascript:>>: > >> I've come across something like that before. RelativeLayouts do not like >> their children doing something like that (or asking to be aligned to the >> right/bottom). >> >> Just use a size variable for both the parent and child (see >> dimensions.xml), will save you the headache understanding android's layout >> mechanism. >> >> >> On Sunday, May 11, 2014 3:37:09 PM UTC+3, dashman wrote: >>> >>> android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" >>> android:layout_alignParentRight="true" >>> >>> >>> No changes - still the full width of the parent View (not layout) >>> >>> >>> >>> On Saturday, May 10, 2014 9:06:10 PM UTC-4, TreKing wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 6:57 PM, dashman <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Shouldn't the width of the button be 60dp - >>>>> since i've set the width of the button to match-parent - and it's set >>>>> to 60dp in the layout. >>>>> >>>>> It's actually taking up the full width of the parent view - not layout. >>>>> >>>> >>>> You'd think, right? >>>> >>>> To achieve what you're looking for, try setting both align_parentLeft >>>> and align_parentRight >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> ------------------------------------- >>>> TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago >>>> transit tracking app for Android-powered devices >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Android Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
