Placing/Overlapping(z-index) a view above another view in android

Question

I have a linear layout which consists of imageview and textview , one below another in a linear layout.

Answer 1

I use this, if you want only one view to be bring to front when needed:

containerView.bringChildToFront(topView);

containerView is container of views to be sorted, topView is view which i want to have as top most in container.

for multiple views to arrange is about to use setChildrenDrawingOrderEnabled(true) and overriding getChildDrawingOrder(int childCount, int i) as mentioned above.