How to place two Linear Layout on each other?-CodePudding

I try to develop a game using Kotlin where you shall guess a random word. I'd like a "keyboard" for the guessing where the raws of the keyboard would be Linear Layouts with full of Buttons. Something like this:

A B C D E * F G H I J * . . . . .,

where A,B,C,D,E are 5 Buttons contained by a Linear Layout. At the * sign the Linear Layout ends and from F-J there is an another Linear Layout. They shall be under each other and not next to each other.

I cannot place a linear layout to another one because they overlap. I tried RelativeLayout, tried LinearLayout with aligning the Top to the other Linear Layout's bottom, but nothing helped so far.

CodePudding user response：

simplest solution would be to use LinearLayout with orientation set to vertical, which can containt multiple orientation=horizontal LinearLayouts (for each row of letters)

but there are better Views for such purpose, e.g. GridLayout, GridView, TableLayout...

CodePudding user response：

You can use a TableLayout, something like this:

<TableLayout>
     <TableRow>
         <LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical">
            <!-- the views you need here -->
         </LinearLayout>

     </TableRow>

</TableLayout>

You have the table, and for every TableRow you put, you can use a vertical oriented LinearLayout to put the TextView, Buttons or whatever you need