Android floating view (over other views)

Question

I\'ve been messing around with this for a few days now, hopefully someone here can lend me a hand.

I have a simple two-column layout, the left side is a navigation b

Answer 1

RelativeLayout is what you want.
FrameLayout must only have one child, and is therefore, usually, only used for a placeholder where other layouts come later (such as the main frame of the activity).
AbsoluteLayout is deprecated, and should not be used.

RelativeLayout allows the views to overlap, and allows doing, pretty much, anything you want.