Add Layout programmatically android

Question

I am working on an application that will get images from SD-Card and will respectively show them in the layout like this

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The Issue is:

Lets say the user has 100+ files in the SD-Card, to show them in the layout i need to add first 100+ views and then i would do the styling. Wrong approach

My Question is:

What can be done either progamatically or through XML so that i could define only five basic views and depending upon the number of images in the SD-card, it creates the remaining Layouts and views so that i can access them through horizontal scroll view.

My research includes:

I tried using the Grid view layout but it does not full fill my needs as it has a uniform size for all grids. more over i know how to add a layout programmatically but i do not know how to make it work with my design.

you can use a gridview or staggered gridview github.com/etsy/AndroidStaggeredGrid — Raghunandan
– Raghunandan, Commented Jan 29, 2014 at 11:04
you could use a gridlayout inside a horizontalScrollView, load a number or files, and load more when the user scrolls to the end. — Ayoub
– Ayoub, Commented Jan 29, 2014 at 11:14

Shani Goriwal · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-29 11:56:52Z

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You can make it by changing you xml both side scrollable as-

<HorizontalScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="320px" android:layout_height="fill_parent">

    <TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:id="@+id/linlay" android:layout_width="320px"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:stretchColumns="1"
        android:background="#000000"/>

</HorizontalScrollView>

answered Jan 29, 2014 at 11:56

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Payal · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-29 12:38:22Z

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Use this approach :-

1.) Put the path to all images in an arraylist.

2.) create a for loop that will run till size of arraylist.

3.) In this loop, create your imageview using code.

ImageView im = new ImageView(this);

4.) to Show image, in src attribute add the path from arraylist.

You need to use some extra layout params to design according your needs.

edited Jan 29, 2014 at 12:38

answered Jan 29, 2014 at 12:31

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2 Comments

Hassaan Rabbani Over a year ago

i need to define relevance of each image with respect to another.. how will we manage it then?

Payal Over a year ago

For that you need to create different arraylists for different attributes , and for n no of imageview call the attribute related to that in x arraylist.

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