FrameLayout android exam

FrameLayout

The FrameLayout is a placeholder on screen that you can use to display a single view. Views that you add to a FrameLayout is always anchored to the top left of the layout. Consider the following content in main.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AbsoluteLayout
    android:id="@+id/widget68"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    >
    <FrameLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_x="40px"
        android:layout_y="35px"
        >        
        <ImageView
            android:src = "@drawable/androidlogo"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            />
    </FrameLayout>
</AbsoluteLayout>

Here, you have a FrameLayout within an AbsoluteLayout. Within the FrameLayout, you embed an ImageView view. The UI is as shown in Figure 10.
Note: This example assumes that the res/drawable folder has an image named androidlogo.png.

Figure 10 Using FrameLayout

If you add another view (such as a Button view) within the FrameLayout, the view will overlap the previous view (see also Figure 11):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AbsoluteLayout
    android:id="@+id/widget68"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    >
    <FrameLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_x="40px"
        android:layout_y="35px"
        >        
        <ImageView
            android:src = "@drawable/androidlogo"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            />            
        <Button
            android:layout_width="124px"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Print Picture"       
            />
    </FrameLayout>
</AbsoluteLayout>

Figure 11 Overlapping views

You can add multiple views to a FrameLayout, but each will stack on top of the previous one.