android: how to make a child view overlap the parent?
I need to implement the layout as in the picture. Parent and Sibling are in a vertical LinearLayout. So I need to make a child view to overlap it's parent. Can I do that in android? If: sibling is a sibling of parent parent is a ViewGroup and you really want child to be a child of parent then maybe you could consider using android:clipChildren set to false on parent . I was actually just looking at an example of a FrameLayout that had a TextView overlaid on top of an ImageView. So, there are obviously multiple ways to get it done. Your next question might be which one is best ... to that I