How to bring view in front of everything?

Question

I have activity and a lot of widgets on it, some of them have animations and because of the animations some of the widgets are moving (translating) one over another. For exa

Answer 1

Try FrameLayout, it gives you the possibility to put views one above another. You can create two LinearLayouts: one with the background views, and one with foreground views, and combine them using the FrameLayout. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

An even simpler solution is to edit the XML of the activity. Use

android:translationZ=""

Answer 3

Thanks to Stack user over this explanation, I've got this working even on Android 4.1.1

((View)myView.getParent()).requestLayout();
myView.bringToFront();

On my dynamic use, for example, I did

public void onMyClick(View v)
     {
     ((View)v.getParent()).requestLayout();
     v.bringToFront();
     }

And Bamm !

Answer 4

There can be another way which saves the day. Just init a new Dialog with desired layout and just show it. I need it for showing a loadingView over a DialogFragment and this was the only way I succeed.

Dialog topDialog = new Dialog(this, android.R.style.Theme_Translucent_NoTitleBar);
topDialog.setContentView(R.layout.dialog_top);
topDialog.show();

bringToFront() might not work in some cases like mine. But content of dialog_top layout must override anything on the ui layer. But anyway, this is an ugly workaround.