getWidth() and getHeight() always returning 0. Custom view

Question

In a Fragment, I am inflating a Layout with multiple child View. I need to get the dimensions (width and height) of one of them which is a custom view.

Inside the

Answer 1

this is a real pain especially because you expected with a name like onViewCreated in fragments lifecycle that the view is ready. for me get the fragment view itself like this:

 override fun onViewCreated(view: View, savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
            super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState)   
     getView()?.let{
                  it.doOnLayout{// do your UI work here }
                   }
    }

this ensures the fragments getView has actually had one layout pass already.