Why does calling getWidth() on a View in onResume() return 0?
A view still hasn't been drawn when onResume()
is called, so its width and height are 0. You can "catch" when its size changes using OnGlobalLayoutListener()
:
yourView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
@Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
// Removing layout listener to avoid multiple calls
if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
yourView.getViewTreeObserver().removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);
}
else {
yourView.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this);
}
populateData();
}
});
For additional info take a look at Android get width returns 0.
you have to wait that the the current view's hierarchy is at least measured before getWidth
and getHeigth
return something != 0. What you could do is to retrieve the "root" layout and post a runnable. Inside the runnable you should be able to retrieve width and height successfully
root.post(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
LinearLayout test = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.myview);
double widthpx = test.getWidth();
}
});