How to get RelativeLayout working with merge and include?

Question

I have been trying for a few days now to make my layouts more efficient by converting from using several levels of nested LinearLayouts to one RelativeLay

Answer 1

For positioning to work on RelativeLayout you need to set the layout_* parameters in the include file, not in the main layout file. That way

main_layout.xml

   ....



    .....

content_layout.xml

    ....

This is obviously not what us developers want, but it's the only solution I've found to avoid duplicating xml