Ok, thanks to the both of you.

On Sep 3, 10:40 am, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Lance Nanek <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I've seen it done for fixed size buttons entirely in XML just by using
> > FrameLayout, which overlaps all its children. Inside the FrameLayout
> > you put the button and another layout with the content, then tweak the
> > sizes/padding/margins such that the content looks like it is in the
> > button when really it is above the button. The content isn't
> > clickable, so touching it touches the button behind it. If I had to do
> > a content sized one and couldn't figure out how to do it entirely in
> > XML, I'd probably still steal the same approach, I'd just set the size
> > of the button via code after the layout is sized to the content. That
> > doesn't require any code merging, just managing the size of a button
> > child in a custom layout subclass.
>
> You should be able to accomplish the same trick with a RelativeLayout,
> which may be easier to manage, since you can position the pieces
> relative to each other, rather than having to calculate absolute
> coordinates for margins with FrameLayout.
>
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