Re: [android-developers] Layout problems: AbsoluteLayout deprecated, how to do it now?

Martin wrote:
> For my game "Leonard Frog - Beta" in the market, I use an
> AbsoluteLayout to place all the buttons in the correct position like
> in the following image:
> http://digle.de/friends/LeonardFrogBig.jpg
>
> Now the AbsoluteLayout is deprecated. How can I place these buttons
> now in the right position like in the image without using the
> AbsoluteLayout? (I don't want to cover the frog and other things of my
> background image).
>
> The other problem with my AbsoluteLayout was that my main page of the
> game looks like this on smaller devices:
> http://digle.de/friends/LeonardFrogSmall.jpg

The official answer has been "write your own layout class that
incorporates your own rules". The idea is that layout classes isolate
pixel-level positioning from the rest of the UI.

And if anyone knows of a good tutorial or two on creating your own
layout classes, I'd love to see 'em.

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