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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Building the Weather UI Starting at the Center

Posted by Tomás Borges
Tomás Borges
4,394 Points

Problems with RelativeLayout

Hello, my android studio opens mainActivity.xml with a constraint layout and I don't know how to transform it into a relative layout or how to do it on my own as a constraint layout. Help please, and thanks in advance :).

Tomás Borges
Tomás Borges
4,394 Points

thanksssss

1 Answer

Merlin Stemmer
Merlin Stemmer
5,230 Points
Merlin Stemmer
Merlin Stemmer
5,230 Points

This is what you do to change it to a Relative Layout. Go to the activity_main.xml section. then change from this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <android.support.constraint.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" tools:context=".MainActivity">

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Hello World!"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

to this...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <android.widget.RelativeLayout 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" tools:context=".MainActivity">

<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Hello World!"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

</android.widget.RelativeLayout>

Notice the difference? You just change the - android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout to - android.widget.RelativeLayout

have an amazing day. Also, you probably should just google questions like this :) I'm glad I could help you! :)