How do you setLayoutParams() for an ImageView?

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DeadTime picture DeadTime · Jun 3, 2010 · Viewed 146.9k times · Source

I want to set the LayoutParams for an ImageView but cant seem to find out the proper way to do it.

I can only find documentation in the API for the various ViewGroups, but not an ImageView. Yet the ImageView seems to have this functionality.

This code doesn't work...

myImageView.setLayoutParams(new ImageView.LayoutParams(30,30));

How do I do it?

Answer

Steve Haley picture Steve Haley · Jun 3, 2010

You need to set the LayoutParams of the ViewGroup the ImageView is sitting in. For example if your ImageView is inside a LinearLayout, then you create a

LinearLayout.LayoutParams layoutParams = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(30, 30);
yourImageView.setLayoutParams(layoutParams);

This is because it's the parent of the View that needs to know what size to allocate to the View.

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