android How to add view at start of layout?

Question

My question is simple. I have a linearlayout. It has some child views. Now I want to add a view at the start of the child. Means in normal addView(view), the view s added at

Answer 1

Consider exploring the index argument of the addView method in parent class ViewGroup, Specifically addView(View child, ViewGroup.LayoutParams params). This method adds a View to the parent layout with the params defined, the index acts as a preference or rather point of insertion of the view in the layout.