How to set Width and Height of FrameLayout dynamically android?

Question

I am trying to set the width and height of 2 frame layouts which are the containers for 2 fragments, both being children of a Linear Layout.

However whenever I set width and height of the layout with

frameLayout.setLayoutParams(new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(100,100);

it is resulting in a class cast Exception

java.lang.ClassCastException: android.widget.FrameLayout$LayoutParams cannot be cast to android.widget.LinearLayout$LayoutParams

Purposeless

Answer 1

use this method ...

.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(100,100);

instead of your method ....

.setLayoutParams(new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(100,100)

Note:- ClassCastException problem happen when your class is different other class, you want to cast....

Dufrene

you are welcome ... and remember the exception for next time – Dufrene

Answer 2

This answer is actually complementary, as some people already explained the solution, but I wanted to clarify the question further more.

As mentioned above, you must set the parameters to the PARENT view and not to the view itself. You said that the FrameLayouts are inside LinearLayouts, so you must set the parameters for that.

That is the reason why you got the exception

java.lang.ClassCastException: android.widget.FrameLayout$LayoutParams cannot be cast to android.widget.LinearLayout$LayoutParams

The compiler is telling you exactly that, you cannot cast FrameLayout parameters to a LinearLayout.

From Android documentation:

LayoutParams are used by views to tell their parents how they want to be laid out. See ViewGroup Layout Attributes for a list of all child view attributes that this class supports.

Hope that clarifies the question even more!

Pyelography

Answer 3

You can use the following code."gameframe" is the name of the frameLayout.

ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = gameFrame.getLayoutParams();
params.width = New_width;
params.height = New_height;      
gameFrame.setLayoutParams(params);

Nonesuch

Answer 4

The exception report gives you a hint. It looks like the parent layout of your FrameLayout is a LinearLayout. So, you need to set LinearLayout params for your FrameLayout. Try the following:

LinearLayout.LayoutParams lp = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(your_width, your_height);
frameLayout.setLayoutParams(lp);

Kreutzer

Yes I agree absolutely, I also noticed that you cannot set the layout params if your parent layout is a relative layout – Purposeless

@JayakrishnanMenon glad that helped. – Kreutzer