Aligning Controls

I'm just wasting time with this, because I have no idea how to do it properly. Basically, I want to have a custom input view, where the user can draw whatever he wants with his / h

Solution 1:

Place the custom view above the Buttons:

<RelativeLayoutxmlns: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"tools:context=".MainActivity" ><Buttonandroid:id="@+id/buttonSave"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"android:text="@string/save" /><Buttonandroid:id="@+id/buttonQuery"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"android:layout_alignParentRight="true"android:text="@string/query" /><com.example.myapp.DrawViewandroid:id="@+id/drawView"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent"android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"android:layout_alignParentTop="true"android:layout_above="@id/buttonSave" /></RelativeLayout>

If you aren't sure about the height of the Buttons being equal you would have to wrap them in another layout(like LinearLayout) and then place the custom View above that wrapper.

Solution 2:

Place buttons on some layout:

<RelativeLayoutxmlns: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"tools:context=".MainActivity" ><com.example.myapp.DrawViewandroid:id="@+id/drawView"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent"android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"android:layout_alignParentTop="true" /><RelativeLayoutandroid:id="@+id/button_layout"........android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    >
              ....
              your buttons
              .....
    </RelativeLayout></RelativeLayout>