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Android

Posted by Samiruddin Syed
Samiruddin Syed
3,136 Points

Android Eclipse Problem HELP!

Image 1 and Image 2

The second image shows how the green dotted lines appear when placing a Plain Text field in the layout.

But in the first image, Im not able to get those Green dotted lines as I got them in the second image.

Note : The change of file names in the first and second image.

In Fragment_Main.xml, the dotted lines appear correctly but in activity_login.xml, the dotted lines do not appear.

Im having problems placing the buttons and other things when these dotted lines aren't appearing.

Please Help.

The code for the layouts are as below :

here is the XML code for "activity_login.xml"

<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/container"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.syedsamiruddin.ribbit.LoginActivity"
    tools:ignore="MergeRootFrame" />

and here is the code for "fragment_login.xml"

<RelativeLayout 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:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="com.syedsamiruddin.ribbit.LoginActivity$PlaceholderFragment" >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello_world" />

</RelativeLayout>

1 Answer

Anthony H
Anthony H
2,515 Points
Anthony H
Anthony H
2,515 Points

You are using two different types of layouts, in the activity_login.xml you are using a 'FrameLayout' and in the fragment_login.xml you are using a 'RelativeLayout'. So change it to match and that should fix it.