Finding the View location (position) on display (screen) in android

Question

I want to find the view\'s position on the display screen.

To do it, I use the methods such as view.getLeft() ,view.getBottom() , vi

Answer 1

I'm not sure that you can get the position of the view before the layout phase have been done. Once the view is layed out you can use getLocationOnScreen to get the position of the view. getTop and similar only returns the position of the view in its parent.