androidandroid-overlay

Android Overlay at bottom of the screen


I want to implement the ads in my app but I want to implement the ads on an overlay view, The main content of the app should be foreground and the overlay is top of the main content and I want to align the overaly at the bottom of the screen. Kindly tell me how I can achieve the overlay at the bottom of my screen???


Solution

  • The simplest way to achieve this is to use a FrameLayout as your root view. Here is some code to demonstrate this. I haven't tested this particular example, but it should work with slight modification to the AdView attributes.

    <FrameLayout
      xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="match_parent">
        <LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/main_layout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent">
        <!-- Your main layout code goes here -->
        </LinearLayout>
        <com.google.ads.AdView
            android:id="@+id/adView"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="bottom"
            ads:adUnitId="MY_AD_UNIT_ID"
            ads:adSize="BANNER"
            ads:testDevices="TEST_EMULATOR, TEST_DEVICE_ID"
            ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"/>
    </FrameLayout>
    

    Note the layout_gravity attribute of the AdView; that's what causes it to appear at the bottom of the screen.