Kotlin Programming Cookbook

How to do it…

In the following steps, we will learn how to set the layout parameters for Anko views:

1. Let's start with creating our view in an external class that inherits from the AnkoComponent interface. To add layout parameters to a view (which we add using the extension functions provided by Anko), we use the lparams() extension function, which we add at the end of our view block in DSL, and is something like this:

val message = editText {    id = R.id.message    hint = "Your message"}.lparams(){    // We specify our layout parameters here}

2. Let's try a simple example with vertical layouts; check out the following code block (focus on the bold parts of the code):

verticalLayout {    verticalLayout {        background = context.getDrawable(R.color.colorLightGrey) ...