Get margin of a View

Question

How can I get the margin value of a View from an Activity? The View can be of any type.

After a bit of searching I found out ways to get padding of a view, but couldn\'

Answer 1

Try

ViewGroup.MarginLayoutParams vlp = (MarginLayoutParams) view.getLayoutParams()

vlp.rightMargin
vlp.bottomMargin
vlp.leftMargin
vlp.topMargin

This returned the correct margains for my view atleast.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewGroup.MarginLayoutParams.html