Is it possible to place one view over another in android?

Question

Can we place a small view over another large view? For example, I have a VideoView which is playing a file in the background. Over this, somewhere in the middle/corner, I wa

Answer 1

The FrameLayout is the simplest ViewGroup and stacks the Views in the order they're defined in layout XML (or added programmatically); the first will be lower, and the last will be on top.

Here is an example where two Views are stacked and offset to better illustrate the point:

Here is the actual layout XML with the two overlapping TextView boxes. The offset of the two boxes is done using android:layout_gravity while android:gravity is used for centering the text itself within each box.