Floating Action Button

Question

I have been trying to use Floating Action Button. I tried to use some of the resources suggested on here and the links were great; however, I couldn\'t use alot of them beca

Answer 1

There is no need to create FloatingActionButton by yourself now. The new com.android.support:design:23.0.1 can do that for you. Just follow the below procedure.

1.Add this line compile 'com.android.support:design:23.0.1' in dependencies in your build.gradle in Android Studio

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.android.support:design:23.0.1'
}

2.To create a FloatingActionButton using the following xml file.

3. In MainActivity in onCreate method set setOnClickListener as follows

   FloatingActionButton fab; fab = (FloatingActionButton) getView().findViewById(R.id.fab); fab.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { //Do what you want here } });