Android center view in FrameLayout doesn't work

Question

I have a FrameLayout in which I have 2 controls: - a custom view which draws a image and some text on it - a textview with a text

I want to center both in the FrameLayout but I can't manage to do it. The Texview is centered just fine, my cusom view remains on the left side, when I make it visible.

<FrameLayout android:id="@+id/CompassMap"
               android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
               android:layout_height="wrap_content"
               android:layout_weight="1"
               android:gravity="center">

             <view class="com.MyView"
        android:id="@+id/myView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
        android:visibility="gone"/>

                <TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
        android:text="CENTERED" /> 
</FrameLayout>

To Mathias, I don't do anything in the constructor, it's just simple

   public class MyMapView extends View {

private int xPos = 0; 
private int yPos = 0;
private Bitmap trackMap;

private Matrix backgroundMatrix;
private Paint backgroundPaint;

private Bitmap position;
private Matrix positionMatrix;
private Paint positionPaint;

public MyMapView(Context context) {
    super(context);
    init(context, null);
}

public MyMapView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    init(context, attrs);
}

public MyMapView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    init(context, attrs);
}

private void init(final Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {

backgroundMatrix = new Matrix();
backgroundPaint = new Paint();
backgroundPaint.setFilterBitmap(true);

position = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getContext().getResources(), R.drawable.position);
positionMatrix = new Matrix();

positionPaint = new Paint();
positionPaint.setFilterBitmap(true);
}

@Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
  setMeasuredDimension(MeasureSpec.getSize(widthMeasureSpec), MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec));
}

@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {

    int width = getMeasuredWidth();
    int height = getMeasuredHeight();

    if (trackMap!=null)
    {
        Bitmap resizedBitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(trackMap, height, height, true);
        canvas.drawBitmap(resizedBitmap, backgroundMatrix, backgroundPaint);

    }

        canvas.save(Canvas.MATRIX_SAVE_FLAG);
        canvas.translate(xPos-position.getWidth()/2, yPos-position.getHeight()/2);
        canvas.drawBitmap(position, positionMatrix, positionPaint);

        canvas.restore();
}

    public void updatePosition(int xpos, int ypos, Bitmap trackImage)
    {
        xPos=xpos;
        yPos=ypos;
        trackMap = trackImage;
        invalidate();
    }
}

Answer 1

We can align a view in center of the FrameLayout by setting the layout_gravity of the child view.

In XML:

android:layout_gravity="center"

In Java code:

FrameLayout.LayoutParams params = new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
params.gravity = Gravity.CENTER;

Note: use FrameLayout.LayoutParams not the others existing LayoutParams