How to make a Linear and a Relative Layout share horizontal space as percentages?
The LinearLayout
on the left needs to have a percentage width of the screen, and the RelativeLayout
on the right can just take up what remains. I had this as two LinearLayout's
and it worked fine because I could use the layout_weight
attribute, defining width as a percentage, sorta like so:
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_weight=".20"
But now I need the layout on the right to be a RelativeLayout
, and can't figure out how to preserve the desired percentages since RelativeLayout
does not have a layout_weight
attribute. What I need looks something like:
Note: It's better to use
ConstraintLayout
now without worring about nested views.
In RelativeLayout documentation:
Note: For better performance and tooling support, you should instead build your layout with ConstraintLayout.
Here's the ConstraintLayout
version:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<View
android:id="@+id/view1"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="@color/teal_700"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintWidth_percent="0.2" />
<View
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="@color/teal_200"
app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/view1"
app:layout_constraintWidth_percent="0.8" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
To answer for the question conditions if no way to use ConstraintLayout:
Using android:layout_weight
in a View that is wrapped in a RelativeLayout
is prohibited as RelativeLayout
doesn't provide that attribute for the underlying views (notice attributes start with layout_
are back to the parent layout which is RelativeLayout
).
The same way, using android:layout_weight
in aRelativeLayout
that doesn't mean that it's back to the RelativeLayout
itself, but to its parent layout which is already a LinearLayout
So, this will work normally either it's LinearLayout
or a RelativeLayout
:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:baselineAligned="false"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:weightSum="1">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="0.2"
android:background="@color/teal_700" />
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="0.8"
android:background="@color/teal_200">
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="This is some text in Relative Layout" />
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>