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Android percent support library sample (Android)

In this post I'm gonna show you guys a demo of percent layout of android from support library. Since many a time in our awesome RelativeLayout we insert LinearLayout just to get the property of layout_weight for accessing.

 Now android has a new support library to remove this dependencies. Refer


 Before beginning some pre-requestic (at the time for development):

 Android SDK v22
Android Build Tools v22.0.1
Android Percent Support Repository v23.0.0

Android Support appcompat-v7:22.2.1

 So let's get started:

Step 1: Add below line into apps build.gradle.
compile 'com.android.support:percent:23.0.0'
Step 2:  Add any one of below as the parent of the layout.Its similar to our RelativeLayout or FrameLayout.

 
<android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout> 
or
<android.support.percent.PercentFrameLayout>
Step 3: Now we gonna use layout_heightPercent and layout_widthPercent  property's to specify our height and width in percentage.

 Consider this simple layout.
Layout design:
<android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout
    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">

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/idRL_Header"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        app:layout_heightPercent="20%"
        app:layout_widthPercent="100%"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimaryDark">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/idHeader"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Dashboard"
            android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
            android:textColor="@color/colorWhite"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:textSize="@dimen/txt_size_dash_header"
            android:fontFamily="cursive"
            android:textStyle="bold"/>

    </RelativeLayout>

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/idRL_Logo"
        android:layout_below="@+id/idRL_Header"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        app:layout_heightPercent="40%"
        app:layout_widthPercent="100%"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:background="@color/colorAccent">

        <android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:gravity="center">

            <ImageView
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="0dp"
                app:layout_heightPercent="75%"
                app:layout_widthPercent="75%"
                android:background="@drawable/percent"/>

        </android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout>

    </RelativeLayout>

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/idRL_Menu"
        android:layout_below="@+id/idRL_Logo"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        app:layout_heightPercent="40%"
        app:layout_widthPercent="100%">

        <android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent">

            <RelativeLayout
                android:id="@+id/idRL_RowOne"
                android:layout_height="0dp"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                app:layout_heightPercent="50%"
                app:layout_widthPercent="100%">

                <android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent">

                    <RelativeLayout
                        android:id="@+id/idRR_MenuOne"
                        android:layout_height="0dp"
                        android:layout_width="0dp"
                        app:layout_heightPercent="100%"
                        app:layout_widthPercent="33.3%"
                        android:background="@color/colorPrimary">

                        <android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout
                            android:layout_width="match_parent"
                            android:layout_height="match_parent"
                            android:padding="2dp">

                            <ImageView
                                android:id="@+id/idImg_MenuOne"
                                android:layout_width="0dp"
                                android:layout_height="0dp"
                                app:layout_heightPercent="75%"
                                app:layout_widthPercent="100%"
                                android:src="@drawable/icon" />

                            <TextView
                                android:layout_below="@+id/idImg_MenuOne"
                                android:id="@+id/idTxtMenuOne"
                                android:layout_width="0dp"
                                android:layout_height="0dp"
                                app:layout_heightPercent="25%"
                                app:layout_widthPercent="100%"
                                android:text="One"
                                android:gravity="center"
                                android:textSize="@dimen/txt_size_menu"
                                android:textColor="@color/colorWhite" />

                        </android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout>

                    </RelativeLayout>

                    <RelativeLayout
                        android:id="@+id/idRR_MenuTwo"
                        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/idRR_MenuOne"
                        android:layout_height="0dp"
                        android:layout_width="0dp"
                        app:layout_heightPercent="100%"
                        app:layout_widthPercent="33.3%"
                        android:background="@color/colorPrimaryDark"
                        android:orientation="vertical">

                        <android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout
                            android:layout_width="match_parent"
                            android:layout_height="match_parent"
                            android:padding="2dp">

                            <ImageView
                                android:id="@+id/idImg_MenuTwo"
                                android:layout_width="0dp"
                                android:layout_height="0dp"
                                app:layout_heightPercent="75%"
                                app:layout_widthPercent="100%"
                                android:src="@drawable/icon" />

                            <TextView
                                android:layout_below="@+id/idImg_MenuTwo"
                                android:id="@+id/idTxtMenuTwo"
                                android:layout_width="0dp"
                                android:layout_height="0dp"
                                app:layout_heightPercent="25%"
                                app:layout_widthPercent="100%"
                                android:text="Two"
                                android:gravity="center"
                                android:textSize="@dimen/txt_size_menu"
                                android:textColor="@color/colorWhite" />

                        </android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout>

                    </RelativeLayout>

                    <RelativeLayout
                        android:id="@+id/idRR_MenuThree"
                        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/idRR_MenuTwo"
                        android:layout_height="0dp"
                        android:layout_width="0dp"
                        app:layout_heightPercent="100%"
                        app:layout_widthPercent="33.3%"
                        android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
                        android:orientation="vertical">

                        <android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout
                            android:layout_width="match_parent"
                            android:layout_height="match_parent"
                            android:padding="2dp">

                            <ImageView
                                android:id="@+id/idImg_MenuThree"
                                android:layout_width="0dp"
                                android:layout_height="0dp"
                                app:layout_heightPercent="75%"
                                app:layout_widthPercent="100%"
                                android:src="@drawable/icon" />

                            <TextView
                                android:layout_below="@+id/idImg_MenuThree"
                                android:id="@+id/idTxtMenuThree"
                                android:layout_width="0dp"
                                android:layout_height="0dp"
                                app:layout_heightPercent="25%"
                                app:layout_widthPercent="100%"
                                android:text="Three"
                                android:gravity="center"
                                android:textSize="@dimen/txt_size_menu"
                                android:textColor="@color/colorWhite" />

                        </android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout>

                    </RelativeLayout>

                </android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout>

            </RelativeLayout>

            <RelativeLayout
                android:id="@+id/idRL_RowTwo"
                android:layout_below="@+id/idRL_RowOne"
                android:layout_height="0dp"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                app:layout_heightPercent="50%"
                app:layout_widthPercent="100%">

                <android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent">

                    <RelativeLayout
                        android:id="@+id/idRR_MenuFour"
                        android:layout_height="0dp"
                        android:layout_width="0dp"
                        app:layout_heightPercent="100%"
                        app:layout_widthPercent="33.3%"
                        android:background="@color/colorPrimaryDark">

                        <android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout
                            android:layout_width="match_parent"
                            android:layout_height="match_parent"
                            android:padding="2dp">

                            <ImageView
                                android:id="@+id/idImg_MenuFour"
                                android:layout_width="0dp"
                                android:layout_height="0dp"
                                app:layout_heightPercent="75%"
                                app:layout_widthPercent="100%"
                                android:src="@drawable/icon" />

                            <TextView
                                android:layout_below="@+id/idImg_MenuFour"
                                android:id="@+id/idTxtMenuFour"
                                android:layout_width="0dp"
                                android:layout_height="0dp"
                                app:layout_heightPercent="25%"
                                app:layout_widthPercent="100%"
                                android:text="Four"
                                android:gravity="center"
                                android:textSize="@dimen/txt_size_menu"
                                android:textColor="@color/colorWhite" />

                        </android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout>

                    </RelativeLayout>

                    <RelativeLayout
                        android:id="@+id/idRR_MenuFive"
                        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/idRR_MenuFour"
                        android:layout_height="0dp"
                        android:layout_width="0dp"
                        app:layout_heightPercent="100%"
                        app:layout_widthPercent="33.3%"
                        android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
                        android:orientation="vertical">

                        <android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout
                            android:layout_width="match_parent"
                            android:layout_height="match_parent"
                            android:padding="2dp">

                            <ImageView
                                android:id="@+id/idImg_MenuFive"
                                android:layout_width="0dp"
                                android:layout_height="0dp"
                                app:layout_heightPercent="75%"
                                app:layout_widthPercent="100%"
                                android:src="@drawable/icon" />

                            <TextView
                                android:layout_below="@+id/idImg_MenuFive"
                                android:id="@+id/idTxtMenuFive"
                                android:layout_width="0dp"
                                android:layout_height="0dp"
                                app:layout_heightPercent="25%"
                                app:layout_widthPercent="100%"
                                android:text="Five"
                                android:gravity="center"
                                android:textSize="@dimen/txt_size_menu"
                                android:textColor="@color/colorWhite" />

                        </android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout>

                    </RelativeLayout>

                    <RelativeLayout
                        android:id="@+id/idRR_MenuSix"
                        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/idRR_MenuFive"
                        android:layout_height="0dp"
                        android:layout_width="0dp"
                        app:layout_heightPercent="100%"
                        app:layout_widthPercent="33.3%"
                        android:background="@color/colorPrimaryDark"
                        android:orientation="vertical">

                        <android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout
                            android:layout_width="match_parent"
                            android:layout_height="match_parent"
                            android:padding="2dp">

                            <ImageView
                                android:id="@+id/idImg_MenuSix"
                                android:layout_width="0dp"
                                android:layout_height="0dp"
                                app:layout_heightPercent="75%"
                                app:layout_widthPercent="100%"
                                android:src="@drawable/icon" />

                            <TextView
                                android:layout_below="@+id/idImg_MenuSix"
                                android:id="@+id/idTxtMenuSix"
                                android:layout_width="0dp"
                                android:layout_height="0dp"
                                app:layout_heightPercent="25%"
                                app:layout_widthPercent="100%"
                                android:text="Six"
                                android:gravity="center"
                                android:textSize="@dimen/txt_size_menu"
                                android:textColor="@color/colorWhite" />

                        </android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout>

                    </RelativeLayout>

                </android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout>

            </RelativeLayout>

        </android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout>

    </RelativeLayout>

</android.support.percent.PercentRelativeLayout>
Thus by using the android percent support library we have made our layout simple by removing boilerplate layout.

 Actually this should be a part of Android quite for a while but unfortunate that it didn't. It is too late to add this capability to native Android's RelativeLayout/FrameLayout since user who use the device with old OS version will not be able to use this feature. That's why Android team decided to release this as Support Library and I support the idea.

 Please give a try. It helps a lot making your code cleaner and better =)

 _______________________________________________________________
Happy Coding...


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