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Android

Posted by zawe thiha kyaw
zawe thiha kyaw
194 Points

Can't drag and move items in Relativelayout. It is stuck to the corner of the layout . how do i fix it?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<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" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Button" />

</RelativeLayout>
zawe thiha kyaw
zawe thiha kyaw
194 Points

Please reply ASAP.

Evgeniy Bobrovnichiy
Evgeniy Bobrovnichiy
3,165 Points

HI! It happened because you set "app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent" app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent" app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent" app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" in "RelativeLayiut" it's related to "ConstraintLayout" and that's why this doesn't work correctly. I recoment delete "app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent" app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent" app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent" app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" and use somsing like "<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:id="@+id/text"
    android:layout_marginTop="50dp"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Hello World!"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"/>

<Button
    android:id="@+id/button"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_below="@+id/text"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Button" />

</RelativeLayout> "

2 Answers

Lauren Moineau
Lauren Moineau
9,483 Points
Lauren Moineau
Lauren Moineau
9,483 Points

Hi Zawe. To add to what Evgeniy has just said, if you'd prefer to use the layout editor instead of the XML code with RelativeLayout in the future, check out my answer to a similar question last week.

Hope that helps :)

zawe thiha kyaw
zawe thiha kyaw
194 Points
zawe thiha kyaw
zawe thiha kyaw
194 Points

Thx for replying i got it now. Thank you both of you :)!

Lauren Moineau
Lauren Moineau
9,483 Points

You're welcome! Glad you sorted it out :)