In the previous articles in this series we have looked at LinearLayout, TableLayout, and RelativeLayout. In this concluding part, we’ll look at FrameLayout, which is arguable the simplest of the basic layout types, but can be extremely useful.
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So far in this series we have looked at LinearLayout and TableLayout to perform different functions when creating an Android layout. In this article we’ll turn our attention to RelativeLayouts.
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In the previous article we looked at LinearLayout but ran in to a problem when we tried to get the columns of nested LinearLayouts to align. In this article we’ll explore TableLayout and look at how it can solve that particular problem.
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Android Layouts are extremely powerful. In the article on Supporting Multiple Displays we looked at how we can use Layouts to allow Android to take a certain amount of responsibility for fitting things to the display. However, Android supports a number of different types of Layout and, while we may have a clear idea of how things should be arranged on the screen, it is not always obvious which type of layout(s) we should use to achieve this. In this series of articles, we will examine the different types of layout available to us, to help us to get a feel for which layout type we should use to solve different problems.
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