android-xml

I'm trying to determine the real dimension in pixels of some UI elements ! Those elements are inflated from a .xml file and are initialized with dip width and height so that the GUI will eventually support multiple screen size and dpi ( as recommended by android specs ). <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="150dip" android:orientation="vertical"> <ImageView android:id="@+id/TlFrame" android:layout_width="110dip" android:layout_height="90dip" android:src="@drawable/timeline_nodrawing" android:layout

I am working on an application, with following XML. but whenI try to clean/build my project the following error occurs: "error: Error parsing XML: not well-formed (invalid token)" <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" > <TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/hello"; /> </LinearLayout> What does it possibly mean? It means there is a compilation error in your

I would like to have a way to reference the project's manifest version number in the main part of the code. What I have been doing up until now is to link the version number in a String XML file to the manifest (@string/Version). What I would like to do is to do it the other way around, link a string XML variable to the version in the manifest. The reason? I'd like to only have to change the version number in one location, the manifest file. Is there any way to do this? Thanks! Konstantin Burov I believe that was already answered here . String versionName = getPackageManager().getPackageInfo

I have 2 cards in a single RelativeLayout . The problem is that there is no elevation or shadow underneath the second card. See the screenshot here: screenshot Here's what I have done in the xml file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:background="@color/colorPrimary" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" android

I have strings defined in the usual strings.xml Resource file like this: <string name="hello_world"> HELLO</string> Is it possible to define format strings such as the one below result_str = String.format("Amount: %.2f for %d days ", var1, var2); in the strings.xml resource file? I tried escaping the special characters but its not working. LocalPCGuy You do not need to use formatted="false" in your XML. You just need to use fully qualified string format markers - %[POSITION]$[TYPE] (where [POSITION] is the attribute position and [TYPE] is the variable type), rather than the short versions, for