Fixed aspect ratio View

Question

How would I go implementing a fixed aspect ratio View? I\'d like to have items with 1:1 aspect ratio in a GridView. I think it\'s better to subclas

Answer 1

To not use third-party solution and considering the fact that both PercentFrameLayout and PercentRelativeLayout were deprecated in 26.0.0, I'd suggest you to consider using ConstraintLayout as a root layout for your grid items.

Your item_grid.xml might look like:

<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/imageview_item"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:scaleType="centerCrop"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="H,1:1" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

As a result you get something like this:

Answer 2

I created a layout library using TalL's answer. Feel free to use it.

RatioLayouts

Installation

Add this to the top of the file

repositories {
    maven {
        url  "http://dl.bintray.com/riteshakya037/maven" 
    }
}


dependencies {
    compile 'com.ritesh:ratiolayout:1.0.0'
}

Usage

Define 'app' namespace on root view in your layout

xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

Include this library in your layout

<com.ritesh.ratiolayout.RatioRelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/activity_main_ratio_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:fixed_attribute="WIDTH" // Fix one side of the layout 
        app:horizontal_ratio="2" // ratio of 2:3
        app:vertical_ratio="3">

Update

With introduction of ConstraintLayout you don't have to write either a single line of code or use third-parties or rely on PercentFrameLayout which were deprecated in 26.0.0.

Here's the example of how to keep 1:1 aspect ratio for your layout using ConstraintLayout:

<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_marginEnd="0dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="0dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="0dp"
        android:background="@android:color/black"
        app:layout_constraintDimensionRatio="H,1:1"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">

    </LinearLayout>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

Answer 3

The ExoPlayer from Google comes with an AspectRatioFrameLayout that you use like this:

<com.google.android.exoplayer2.ui.AspectRatioFrameLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:resize_mode="fixed_width">
    <!-- https://exoplayer.dev/doc/reference/com/google/android/exoplayer2/ui/AspectRatioFrameLayout.html#RESIZE_MODE_FIXED_WIDTH -->

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />

</com.google.android.exoplayer2.ui.AspectRatioFrameLayout>

Then you must set the aspect ratio programmatically:

aspectRatioFrameLayout.setAspectRatio(16f/9f)

Note that you can also set the resize mode programmatically with setResizeMode.

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Since you are obviously not going to grab the whole ExoPlayer library for this single class, you can simply copy-paste the file from GitHub to your project (it's open source):

https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/blob/release-v2/library/ui/src/main/java/com/google/android/exoplayer2/ui/AspectRatioFrameLayout.java

Don't forget to grab the attribute resize_mode too:

https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/blob/release-v2/library/ui/src/main/res/values/attrs.xml#L18-L25

<attr name="resize_mode" format="enum">
  <enum name="fit" value="0"/>
  <enum name="fixed_width" value="1"/>
  <enum name="fixed_height" value="2"/>
  <enum name="fill" value="3"/>
  <enum name="zoom" value="4"/>
</attr>