How can I draw a vertical line in an Activity when a button is pressed?

android line draw
kiki picture kiki · Sep 28, 2010 · Viewed 20.2k times · Source

I want to draw a straight vertical line in my Android activity when a button is pressed. Please explain how I can draw the line with a position & length I want.

Elaboration: I have a linear layout with vertical orientation. A set of buttons constitute this linear layout. When I press one button, I want a line to appear to the right of these buttons, as if dividing the screen halfway - a straight line of width=2dip and height=200dip.

Answer

kiki picture kiki · Sep 28, 2010

I have solved it myself. All you need to do is define a View with appropriate parameters and fill the background with color. You may want to use nested linear layouts for positioning the line correctly.

<View 
      android:id="@+id/View01"
      android:layout_width="2dip"
      android:layout_height="500dip"
      android:background="#2B497B"
/>

So if it may be useful to anyone else, I have posted the answer here myself!

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