How to show one layout on top of the other programmatically in my case?

Question

My main layout main.xml simply contains two LinearLayouts:

• The 1st LinearLayout hosts a VideoView and a Button

Answer 1

FrameLayout is not the better way to do this:

Use RelativeLayout instead. You can position the elements anywhere you like. The element that comes after, has the higher z-index than the previous one (i.e. it comes over the previous one).

Example: