android layouts

As a part of the series of articles that familiarises with the various UI Layouts, we shall today look into creating a table layout from XML and through code. If you have used the table layouts in HTML then this table layout is quite similar to it.  The view controllers are organised as grid made up of rows and columns, where a cell can display a view control. 

In this tutorial we will look into creating a Frame Layout using xml files as well as creating it programmatically. As discussed in the earlier tutorial, a frame layout displays a single view on which all the layout widgets can be arranged. We can visualize a frame layout as a stack of layout widgets that are piled one upon the other in the order of adding them.

In the previous article we have seen how to create an android xml file for a layout creation in android. In this tutorial we shall look into the common layout objects that we can use to create a layout and mechanism of organising the layouts.