Bump.
On May 13, 10:27 am, Keith Wiley <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have seen a number of threads discussing the deprecation of
> AbsoluteLayout. I'm a little fearful of reading third-party blogs
> that suggest solutions to the deprecation because in some discussion
> threads the Google employees have explicitly said the blogs contain
> misunderstandings or inaccuracies.
>
> So, I need to know how to implement my app's behavior without
> AbsoluteLayout. I would greatly appreciate any input people might
> have, especially the real pros, the Android dev team who, by
> deprecating AbsoluteLayout, must have a clear picture in their heads
> of how to reorganize code to be up-to-date to achieve the same
> functionality. Romain Guy, Diane Hackborn, I'm looking your
> direction. :-)
>
> The relevant part of my app is a single large View covering the
> majority of the screen, a subclass of my own creation, whose onDraw
> basically paints a complicated bitmapped canvas. Subsequently, I
> repeatedly add and remove (or set visibility to VISIBLE and GONE,
> that's actually the approach I've taken) an EditText (also subclasses
> with unique behavior) which I must frequently reposition to pixel
> precision over the background canvas. I currently do this by setting
> up a new LayoutParams with the EditText's new location and then
> calling AbsoluteLayout.updateViewLayout on the EditText. Works like a
> charm.
>
> So, a single screen-spanning View drawn with a bitmap, overlaid with a
> single EditText which must be positioned to pixel precision, and set
> VISIBLE and GONE periodically, and be moved from location to location
> from time to time.
>
> Million dollar question: Without using AbsoluteLayout, what is the
> official Android/Google endorsed method for implementing this
> behavior? FrameLayout and RelativeLayout seem -- at the least --
> rather indirect in this situation where AbsoluteLayout provides a
> literal interpretation of my app's behavior: one view positioned
> arbitrarily over another view. Am I incorrect? Can one or both of
> them achieve this behavior as painlessly as AbsoluteLayout?
>
> Thank you.
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