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Android

Posted by Alex Alexander
Alex Alexander
5,673 Points

Help with extra credit: Position four ImageViews so they always take up a quarter of the screen

I've been trying to solve this extra credit challenge in Build a Simple Android App > Creating the Screen Layout. It says: "See if you can position four ImageViews so that each one takes up one quarter of the screen no matter how you size it."

After some searching I tried accomplishing this by nesting a LinearLayout within the RelativeLayout and then using the layout_weight property, but I just couldn't get it to work.

Does anyone have any hints or suggestions on how to approach this challenge?

1 Answer

Leonardo Vidal
Leonardo Vidal
14,603 Points

Don't use that RelativeLayout, instead, use a LinearLayout(horizontal) set the weightSum to 1 and inside of that LinearLayout add two LinearLayout(vertical) and in each one of those set the layout:height to "wrap_content",layout:width to "match_parent" and layout:weight to 0.5, i think that you can continue from here, but if you can't feel free to ask

Alex Alexander
Alex Alexander
5,673 Points

Thanks, this worked for me!

ian sobo
ian sobo
3,851 Points

sorry this is super old, but i cant get LinearLayout to stand on it's own without being a child of RelativeLayout. How can i get LinearLayout to stand on it's own?

also when you mention setting layout:height and width, do you mean the image views or the layouts themselves?