Android — How to position View off-screen?

Question

I\'m trying to animate a simple ImageView in my application and I want it to slide in from the bottom of the screen and come to a resting position where the top 50px of the

Answer 1

I figured out a solution to this that should be easy to implement. It involves modifying the layout and the Activity inflating the layout... see below:

Activity (QuickPlay.java):

public class QuickPlay extends Activity implements AnimationListener
{
    private ImageView myImageView;
    private LinearLayout LL;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        this.setContentView(R.layout.quick_play_screen);

        myImageView = (ImageView) this.findViewById(R.id.Clip);
        LL = (LinearLayout) this.findViewById(R.id.QuickPlayClipLayout);

        //finally
        Animation anim = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this, R.anim.slide_in_quickplay);
        anim.setAnimationListener(this);
        LL.startAnimation(anim);
    }
    @Override
    public void onAnimationEnd(Animation animation){}

    @Override
    public void onAnimationRepeat(Animation animation){}

    @Override
    public void onAnimationStart(Animation animation)
    {
        // This is the key...
        //set the coordinates for the bounds (left, top, right, bottom) based on the offset value (50px) in a resource XML
        LL.layout(0, -(int)this.getResources().getDimension(R.dimen.quickplay_offset), 
                LL.getWidth(), LL.getHeight() + (int)this.getResources().getDimension(R.dimen.quickplay_offset));
    }
}

New LinearLayout (CustomLinearLayout.java):

public class CustomLinearLayout extends LinearLayout
{
    private Context myContext;

    public CustomLinearLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        myContext = context;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec)
    {
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec+((int)myContext.getResources().getDimension(R.dimen.quickplay_offset)));
    }
}

Layout (/res/layout/quick_play_screen.xml):

Resource (/res/values/constants.xml):

    50dp

Animation (/res/anim/slide_in_quickplay.xml):

The program now does exactly what I need it to do. The entire layout starts off screen at the bottom, slides in in 1 sec and comes to a rest where the top of the layout is actually 50px off the top of the screen (i.e. LL.getTop() = -50) and the bottom of the layout is resting at the bottom of the screen (i.e. LL.getBottom() = 530 = 480 + 50).