How can I detect which layout is selected by Android in my application?

Question

Assume I have an activity with three different layouts in different resource folders. For example:

layout-land/my_act.xml
lay

Answer 1

You can get info about screen orientation and size from Resources object. From there you can understand which layout is used.

getResources().getConfiguration().orientation; - returns either Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT or Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE.

int size = getResources().getConfiguration().screenLayout; - returns mask of screen size. You can test against Small, Normal, Large, xLarge sizes. For example:

if ((size & Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_XLARGE)==Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_XLARGE)

Answer 2

You can set a different android:tag attribute on the views in each different resource file, and read the tag back at runtime with View.getTag().

Example:

layout-xlarge-land/my_act.xml

<View
    android:id="@+id/mainview"
    android:tag="xlarge-landscape"
/>

layout-xlarge/my_act.xml

<View
    android:id="@+id/mainview"
    android:tag="xlarge-portrait"
/>

MyActivity.java

String tag = view.getTag();
if (tag.equals("xlarge-landscape") {
    ...
}