Linear Layout In Android

Introduction

In this article I explain Linear Layout in Android. In Linear Layout we can use two types of views, one is horizontal and other is vertical. When we want a linear design or simple design, we use this type of Linear Layout otherwise a Relative Layout is usually used in Android view displays.

Here I will show you how to use a Linear Layout in Android. In this article I will take a Linear Layout and one inner Linear Layout as shown in the output below, the main layout will be a vertical layer and the inner one will be a horizontal layer.

Step 1

First of all create a new Android application project as shown below.

Step 2

Now open the XML file as "res/layout/activity_main.xml" and update it with the following code. This XML code is only for the Linear Layout and the view inside it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!-- Parent linear layout with vertical orientation -->

<LinearLayout

  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

  android:orientation="vertical"

  android:layout_width="match_parent"

  android:layout_height="match_parent">

  <TextView

      android:id="@+id/textview1"

      android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:text="Email:" android:padding="5dip"/>

  <EditText

      android:id="@+id/edittext1"

      android:layout_width="fill_parent"

      android:layout_height="wrap_content"

      android:layout_marginBottom="10dip"

      android:text="@string/email" />

  <EditText

      android:id="@+id/edittex2"

      android:layout_width="fill_parent"

      android:layout_height="wrap_content"

      android:layout_marginBottom="10dip" />

  <Button

      android:id="@+id/enter_btn"

      android:layout_width="fill_parent"

      android:layout_height="wrap_content"

      android:text="Enter" />

  <!-- Child linear layout with horizontal orientation -->

  <LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"

                      android:layout_height="wrap_content"

              android:orientation="horizontal" android:background="#2a2a2a"

              android:layout_marginTop="25dip">

  <TextView

      android:id="@+id/home_btn"

      android:layout_width="fill_parent"

      android:layout_height="wrap_content"

      android:layout_weight="1"

      android:gravity="center"

      android:padding="15dip"

      android:text="Home"

      android:textColor="#ffffff" />

  <TextView

      android:id="@+id/reset_btn"

      android:layout_width="fill_parent"

      android:layout_height="wrap_content"

      android:layout_weight="1"

      android:gravity="center"

      android:padding="15dip"

      android:text="Reset"

      android:textColor="#ffffff" />

   </LinearLayout>

   <TextView

       android:id="@+id/result_txtview"

       android:layout_width="fill_parent"

       android:layout_height="match_parent"

       android:text=" " />

</LinearLayout>

Step 3

Now Open the "MainAcivity.java" file and update it with your logic.

package com.example.linearlayout;

import android.R.string;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.app.backup.RestoreObserver;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.view.Menu;

import android.view.View;

import android.view.View.OnClickListener;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

      Button home_btn,entr_btn,rst_btn;

      TextView tv1,tv2,rslt_tv;

      String tv,s1,s2;

      @Override

      protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

            setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

            tv1=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.edittext1);

            tv2=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.edittex2);

            entr_btn=(Button) findViewById(R.id.enter_btn);

            home_btn=(Button) findViewById(R.id.home_btn);

            rst_btn=(Button) findViewById(R.id.reset_btn);

            rslt_tv=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.result_txtview);

            entr_btn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

                 @Override

                  public void onClick(View v) {

                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                        s1= tv1.getText().toString();

                        s2=tv2.getText().toString();

                        rslt_tv.setText(s1+s2);

                  }

            });

      }

       @Override

      public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

            // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.

            getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);

            return true;

      }

 

}

Step 4

Open the "strings.xml" file and update it as given below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<resources>

    <string name="app_name">LinearLayout</string>

    <string name="hello_world">Hello world!</string>

    <string name="menu_settings">Settings</string>

    <string name="email"></string>

    <string name="button"></string>

 

</resources>

Step 5

Output

In the output you will see in the Outer Linear Layout I defined a vertical text view, two edit texts, one button and one inner Linear Layout with two horizontal buttons inside it.