Android™ Programming Unleashed

Chapter 3. Laying Out Controls in Containers

In This Chapter

• Introduction to Layouts

• LinearLayout

• Applying the Orientation Attribute

• Applying Height and Width Attributes

• Applying the Padding Attribute

• Applying the Weight attribute

• Applying the Gravity Attribute

• Using the android:layout_gravity Attribute

• RelativeLayout

• Relative Layout Control Attributes

• AbsoluteLayout

• FrameLayout

• TableLayout

• TableLayout Operations

• GridLayout

• Screen Orientation Adaptations

A container is a view used to contain other views. Android offers a collection of view classes that act as containers for views. These container classes are called layouts, and as the name suggests, they decide the organization, size, and position of their children ...