Custom Square LinearLayout. How?

Question

I create my own class for the square layout:

public class SquareLayout extends LinearLayout{

    public SquareLayout(Context context) {
        super(contex         


        

Answer 1

Edit:

The solution below has now been deprecated, as ConstraintLayout has become the new standard and provides this functionality.

Original Answer:

Turns out the Android team gave us the solution, but nobody knows about it! Check out these two classes from the Percent Support Library:

• PercentFrameLayout
• PercentRelativeLayout

If you want to impose the ratio of a view, you have to place it within one of these layouts. So in this case, you have to place a standard LinearLayout, not your subclass, within one of these layouts with the right aspect ratio. Example if you want to use a PercentFrameLayout:

And there you go, all your views will be contained within a square linear layout!

don't forget to add the gradle dependency compile 'com.android.support:percent:23.3.0' Adjust the version number as required