Get position of ImageView relative to screen programmatically

Question

I want to get the position of my ImageView programmatically. By position, I mean the distance in pixel from top of the screen to that ImageView. I

Answer 1

You need to wait for the callback when the layout has been placed with children views. This is the listener you need to add to your root view in order to calculate the coordinates for your image. Otherwise it will return 0.

getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
    public void onGlobalLayout() {
        getViewTreeObserver().removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);

        int[] locations = new int[2];
        image.getLocationOnScreen(locations);
        int x = locations[0];
        int y = locations[1];
    }
});