I'm having a very difficult time figuring out how to lay out this element. Here's what I want to do (apologies for my MS Paint skills):
Here, the gray box is supposed to be an ImageView. The red lines here are just to make the sections more clear - not worried abot how to draw them. The features that I'm trying to get are:
The ImageView is aligned relative to the topmost red line, and to the left edge of the green box.
The "TEXT" is to the right of the image, and centered vertically in its section.
Without the ImageView, this is pretty straightforward - just a LinearLayout with three TextViews and some padding. I've tried doing this wit a RelativeLayout, but I'm unsure of how to center Text within the box without relying on guessing at the padding/margin.
I figured out how to get the box hanging over. I created my RelativeLayout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:background="#3AF">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:background="#AAA">
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="New Text"
android:padding="10dp"
android:id="@+id/textView"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="New Text"
android:padding="10dp"
android:id="@+id/textView1"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="New Text"
android:padding="10dp"
android:id="@+id/textView2"/>
</LinearLayout>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:id="@+id/imageView"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>
But what I can't figure out is how to align the topmost TextView to the right of the ImageView. (Note - this is just my attempt. The layout type/style is entirely flexible at this point).
Here's a screenshot of how it looks in the designer:
Any ideas?