added in version 24.1.0
belongs to Maven artifact com.android.support:percent:28.0.0-alpha1
Deprecated since version 26.1.0

PercentLayoutHelper

public class PercentLayoutHelper
extends Object

java.lang.Object
   ↳ android.support.percent.PercentLayoutHelper


This class was deprecated in API level 26.1.0.
consider using ConstraintLayout and associated layouts instead. The following shows how to replicate the functionality of percentage layouts with a ConstraintLayout. The Guidelines are used to define each percentage break point, and then a Button view is stretched to fill the gap:

 <android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
         xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
         xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
         android:layout_width="match_parent"
         android:layout_height="match_parent">

     <android.support.constraint.Guideline
         android:layout_width="wrap_content"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:id="@+id/left_guideline"
         app:layout_constraintGuide_percent=".15"
         android:orientation="vertical"/>

     <android.support.constraint.Guideline
         android:layout_width="wrap_content"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:id="@+id/right_guideline"
         app:layout_constraintGuide_percent=".85"
         android:orientation="vertical"/>

     <android.support.constraint.Guideline
         android:layout_width="wrap_content"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:id="@+id/top_guideline"
         app:layout_constraintGuide_percent=".15"
         android:orientation="horizontal"/>

     <android.support.constraint.Guideline
         android:layout_width="wrap_content"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:id="@+id/bottom_guideline"
         app:layout_constraintGuide_percent=".85"
         android:orientation="horizontal"/>

     <Button
         android:text="Button"
         android:layout_width="0dp"
         android:layout_height="0dp"
         android:id="@+id/button"
         app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="@+id/left_guideline"
         app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="@+id/right_guideline"
         app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/top_guideline"
         app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@+id/bottom_guideline" />

 </android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

  

Helper for layouts that want to support percentage based dimensions.

This class collects utility methods that are involved in extracting percentage based dimension attributes and applying them to ViewGroup's children. If you would like to implement a layout that supports percentage based dimensions, you need to take several steps:

  1. You need a ViewGroup.LayoutParams subclass in your ViewGroup that implements PercentLayoutHelper.PercentLayoutParams.
  2. In your LayoutParams(Context c, AttributeSet attrs) constructor create an instance of PercentLayoutHelper.PercentLayoutInfo by calling getPercentLayoutInfo(Context, AttributeSet). Return this object from public PercentLayoutHelper.PercentLayoutInfo getPercentLayoutInfo() method that you implemented for PercentLayoutHelper.PercentLayoutParams interface.
  3. Override setBaseAttributes(TypedArray, int, int) with a single line implementation PercentLayoutHelper.fetchWidthAndHeight(this, a, widthAttr, heightAttr);
  4. In your ViewGroup override generateLayoutParams(AttributeSet) to return your LayoutParams.
  5. In your onMeasure(int, int) override, you need to implement following pattern:
     protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
         mHelper.adjustChildren(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
         super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
         if (mHelper.handleMeasuredStateTooSmall()) {
             super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
         }
     }
     
  6. In your onLayout(boolean, int, int, int, int) override, you need to implement following pattern:
     protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int left, int top, int right, int bottom) {
         super.onLayout(changed, left, top, right, bottom);
         mHelper.restoreOriginalParams();
     }
     

Summary

Nested classes

class PercentLayoutHelper.PercentLayoutInfo

This class was deprecated in API level 26.1.0. use ConstraintLayout and Guidelines for layout support.  

interface PercentLayoutHelper.PercentLayoutParams

This interface was deprecated in API level 26.1.0. this class is deprecated along with its parent class.  

Public constructors

PercentLayoutHelper(ViewGroup host)

Public methods

void adjustChildren(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec)

Iterates over children and changes their width and height to one calculated from percentage values.

static void fetchWidthAndHeight(ViewGroup.LayoutParams params, TypedArray array, int widthAttr, int heightAttr)

Helper method to be called from setBaseAttributes(TypedArray, int, int) override that reads layout_width and layout_height attribute values without throwing an exception if they aren't present.

static PercentLayoutHelper.PercentLayoutInfo getPercentLayoutInfo(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)

Constructs a PercentLayoutInfo from attributes associated with a View.

boolean handleMeasuredStateTooSmall()

Iterates over children and checks if any of them would like to get more space than it received through the percentage dimension.

void restoreOriginalParams()

Iterates over children and restores their original dimensions that were changed for percentage values.

Inherited methods

From class java.lang.Object

Public constructors

PercentLayoutHelper

added in version 24.1.0
PercentLayoutHelper (ViewGroup host)

Parameters
host ViewGroup

Public methods

adjustChildren

added in version 24.1.0
void adjustChildren (int widthMeasureSpec, 
                int heightMeasureSpec)

Iterates over children and changes their width and height to one calculated from percentage values.

Parameters
widthMeasureSpec int: Width MeasureSpec of the parent ViewGroup.

heightMeasureSpec int: Height MeasureSpec of the parent ViewGroup.

fetchWidthAndHeight

added in version 24.1.0
void fetchWidthAndHeight (ViewGroup.LayoutParams params, 
                TypedArray array, 
                int widthAttr, 
                int heightAttr)

Helper method to be called from setBaseAttributes(TypedArray, int, int) override that reads layout_width and layout_height attribute values without throwing an exception if they aren't present.

Parameters
params ViewGroup.LayoutParams

array TypedArray

widthAttr int

heightAttr int

getPercentLayoutInfo

added in version 24.1.0
PercentLayoutHelper.PercentLayoutInfo getPercentLayoutInfo (Context context, 
                AttributeSet attrs)

Constructs a PercentLayoutInfo from attributes associated with a View. Call this method from LayoutParams(Context c, AttributeSet attrs) constructor.

Parameters
context Context

attrs AttributeSet

Returns
PercentLayoutHelper.PercentLayoutInfo

handleMeasuredStateTooSmall

added in version 24.1.0
boolean handleMeasuredStateTooSmall ()

Iterates over children and checks if any of them would like to get more space than it received through the percentage dimension. If you are building a layout that supports percentage dimensions you are encouraged to take advantage of this method. The developer should be able to specify that a child should be remeasured by adding normal dimension attribute with wrap_content value. For example he might specify child's attributes as app:layout_widthPercent="60%p" and android:layout_width="wrap_content". In this case if the child receives too little space, it will be remeasured with width set to WRAP_CONTENT.

Returns
boolean True if the measure phase needs to be rerun because one of the children would like to receive more space.

restoreOriginalParams

added in version 24.1.0
void restoreOriginalParams ()

Iterates over children and restores their original dimensions that were changed for percentage values. Calling this method only makes sense if you previously called adjustChildren(int, int).