[android] How can I add the new "Floating Action Button" between two widgets/layouts

I guess you have seen the new Android design guidelines, with the new "Floating Action Button" a.k.a "FAB"

For instance this pink button:

My question sounds stupid, and I have already tried a lot of things, but what is the best way to put this button at the intersection of two layouts?

In the above exemple, this button is perfectly placed between what we can imagine to be an ImageView and a relativeLayout.

I have already tried a lot of tweaks, but I am convinced there is a proper way to do it.

Seems like the cleanest way in this example is to:

• Use a RelativeLayout
• Position the 2 adjacent views one below the other
• Align the FAB to the parent right/end and add a right/end margin
• Align the FAB to the bottom of the header view and add a negative margin, half the size of the FAB including shadow

Example adapted from shamanland implementation, use whatever FAB you wish. Assume FAB is 64dp high including shadow:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <View
        android:id="@+id/header"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="120dp"
    />

    <View
        android:id="@+id/body"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_below="@id/header"
    />

    <fully.qualified.name.FloatingActionButton
        android:id="@+id/fab"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@id/header"
        android:layout_marginBottom="-32dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
    />

</RelativeLayout>

With AppCompat 22, the FAB is supported for older devices.

Add the new support library in your build.gradle(app):

compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.0'

Then you can use it in your xml:

<android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
    android:id="@+id/fab"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="bottom|end"
    android:src="@android:drawable/ic_menu_more"
    app:elevation="6dp"
    app:pressedTranslationZ="12dp" />

To use elevation and pressedTranslationZ properties, namespace app is needed, so add this namespace to your layout: xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

Try this library (javadoc is here), min API level is 7:

dependencies {
    compile 'com.shamanland:fab:0.0.8'
}

It provides single widget with ability to customize it via Theme, xml or java-code.

It's very simple to use. There are available normal and mini implementation according to Promoted Actions pattern.

<com.shamanland.fab.FloatingActionButton
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:src="@drawable/ic_action_my"
    app:floatingActionButtonColor="@color/my_fab_color"
    app:floatingActionButtonSize="mini"
    />

Try to compile the demo app. There is exhaustive example: light and dark themes, using with ListView, align between two Views.

Now it is part of official Design Support Library.

In your gradle:

compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.0'

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/FloatingActionButton.html

Here is one aditional free Floating Action Button library for Android. It has many customizations and requires SDK version 9 and higher

Full Demo Video

dependencies {
    compile 'com.scalified:fab:1.1.2'
}

Add this to your gradle file

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.0.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:design:23.0.1'
}

This to your activity_main.xml

<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">

        <LinearLayout android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:orientation="vertical">

            <LinearLayout
                android:id="@+id/viewOne"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_weight="0.6"
                android:background="@android:color/holo_blue_light"
                android:orientation="horizontal"/>

            <LinearLayout
                android:id="@+id/viewTwo"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_weight="0.4"
                android:background="@android:color/holo_orange_light"
                android:orientation="horizontal"/>

        </LinearLayout>

        <android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
            android:id="@+id/floatingButton"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_margin="16dp"
            android:clickable="true"
            android:src="@drawable/ic_done"
            app:layout_anchor="@id/viewOne"
            app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|right|end"
            app:backgroundTint="#FF0000"
            app:rippleColor="#FFF" />

    </android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

You can find the full example with android studio project to download at http://www.ahotbrew.com/android-floating-action-button/

Keep it Simple Adding Floating Action Button using TextView by giving rounded xml background. - Add compile com.android.support:design:23.1.1 to gradle file

• Use CoordinatorLayout as root view.
• Before Ending the CoordinatorLayout introduce a textView.
• Inside Drawable draw a circle.

Circle Xml is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:shape="oval">

    <solid
        android:color="@color/colorPrimary"/>
    <size
        android:width="30dp"
        android:height="30dp"/>
</shape>

Layout xml is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">


<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:weightSum="5"
    >

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/viewA"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1.6"
        android:background="@drawable/contact_bg"
        android:gravity="center_horizontal|center_vertical"
        >
        </RelativeLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="3.4"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:padding="16dp"
        android:weightSum="10"
        >

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            >
            </LinearLayout>

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:weightSum="4"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            >
            <TextView
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:text="Name"
                android:textSize="22dp"
                android:textColor="@android:color/black"
                android:padding="3dp"
                />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/name"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="3"
                android:text="Ritesh Kumar Singh"
                android:singleLine="true"
                android:textSize="22dp"
                android:textColor="@android:color/black"
                android:padding="3dp"
                />

            </LinearLayout>



        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:weightSum="4"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            >
            <TextView
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:text="Phone"
                android:textSize="22dp"
                android:textColor="@android:color/black"
                android:padding="3dp"
                />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/number"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="3"
                android:text="8283001122"
                android:textSize="22dp"
                android:textColor="@android:color/black"
                android:singleLine="true"
                android:padding="3dp"
                />

        </LinearLayout>



        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:weightSum="4"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            >
            <TextView
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:text="Email"
                android:textSize="22dp"
                android:textColor="@android:color/black"
                android:padding="3dp"
                />

            <TextView
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="3"
                android:text="[email protected]"
                android:textSize="22dp"
                android:singleLine="true"
                android:textColor="@android:color/black"
                android:padding="3dp"
                />

        </LinearLayout>


        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:weightSum="4"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            >
            <TextView
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:text="City"
                android:textSize="22dp"
                android:textColor="@android:color/black"
                android:padding="3dp"
                />

            <TextView
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_weight="3"
                android:text="Panchkula"
                android:textSize="22dp"
                android:textColor="@android:color/black"
                android:singleLine="true"
                android:padding="3dp"
                />

        </LinearLayout>

    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>


    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/floating"
        android:transitionName="@string/transition_name_circle"
        android:layout_width="100dp"
        android:layout_height="100dp"
        android:layout_margin="16dp"
        android:clickable="false"
        android:background="@drawable/circle"
        android:elevation="10dp"
        android:text="R"
        android:textSize="40dp"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:textColor="@android:color/black"
        app:layout_anchor="@id/viewA"
        app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom"/>

        </android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

Click here to se how it Will look like

You can import the sample project of Google in Android Studio by clicking File > Import Sample...

This Sample contains a FloatingActionButton View which inherits from FrameLayout.

Edit With the new Support Design Library you can implement it like in this example: https://github.com/chrisbanes/cheesesquare

here is working code.

i use appBarLayout to anchor my floatingActionButton. hope this might helpful.

XML CODE.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        android:id="@+id/appbar"
        android:layout_height="192dp"
        android:layout_width="match_parent">

        <android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            app:toolbarId="@+id/toolbar"
            app:titleEnabled="true"
            app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways|exitUntilCollapsed"
            android:id="@+id/collapsingbar"
            app:contentScrim="?attr/colorPrimary">

            <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                app:layout_collapseMode="pin"
                android:id="@+id/toolbarItemDetailsView"
                android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"></android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
        </android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout>
    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

    <android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:layout_behavior="android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout$ScrollingViewBehavior">

        <android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            tools:context="com.example.rktech.myshoplist.Item_details_views">
            <RelativeLayout
                android:orientation="vertical"
                android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent">


                <!--Put Image here -->
                <ImageView
                    android:visibility="gone"
                    android:layout_marginTop="56dp"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="230dp"
                    android:scaleType="centerCrop"
                    android:src="@drawable/third" />


                <ScrollView
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent">

                    <RelativeLayout
                        android:layout_width="match_parent"
                        android:layout_height="match_parent"
                        android:layout_gravity="center"
                        android:orientation="vertical">

                        <android.support.v7.widget.CardView
                            android:layout_width="match_parent"
                            android:layout_height="match_parent"
                            app:cardCornerRadius="4dp"
                            app:cardElevation="4dp"
                            app:cardMaxElevation="6dp"
                            app:cardUseCompatPadding="true">

                            <RelativeLayout
                                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                                android:layout_margin="8dp"
                                android:padding="3dp">


                                <LinearLayout
                                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                                    android:layout_height="match_parent"
                                    android:orientation="vertical">


                                    <TextView
                                        android:id="@+id/txtDetailItemTitle"
                                        style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Title"
                                        android:layout_width="match_parent"
                                        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                                        android:layout_marginLeft="4dp"
                                        android:text="Title" />

                                    <LinearLayout
                                        android:layout_width="match_parent"
                                        android:layout_height="match_parent"
                                        android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
                                        android:orientation="horizontal">

                                        <TextView
                                            android:id="@+id/txtDetailItemSeller"
                                            style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Subhead"
                                            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                                            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                                            android:layout_marginLeft="4dp"
                                            android:layout_weight="1"
                                            android:text="Shope Name" />

                                        <TextView
                                            android:id="@+id/txtDetailItemDate"
                                            style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Subhead"
                                            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                                            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                                            android:layout_marginRight="4dp"
                                            android:gravity="right"
                                            android:text="Date" />


                                    </LinearLayout>

                                    <TextView
                                        android:id="@+id/txtDetailItemDescription"
                                        style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Medium"
                                        android:layout_width="match_parent"
                                        android:minLines="5"
                                        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                                        android:layout_marginLeft="4dp"
                                        android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
                                        android:text="description" />

                                    <LinearLayout
                                        android:layout_width="match_parent"
                                        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                                        android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
                                        android:orientation="horizontal">

                                        <TextView
                                            android:id="@+id/txtDetailItemQty"
                                            style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Medium"
                                            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                                            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                                            android:layout_marginLeft="4dp"
                                            android:layout_weight="1"
                                            android:text="Qunatity" />

                                        <TextView
                                            android:id="@+id/txtDetailItemMessure"
                                            style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Medium"
                                            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                                            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                                            android:layout_marginRight="4dp"
                                            android:layout_weight="1"
                                            android:gravity="right"
                                            android:text="Messure in Gram" />
                                    </LinearLayout>


                                    <TextView
                                        android:id="@+id/txtDetailItemPrice"
                                        style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Headline"
                                        android:layout_width="match_parent"
                                        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                                        android:layout_marginRight="4dp"
                                        android:layout_weight="1"
                                        android:gravity="right"
                                        android:text="Price" />
                                </LinearLayout>

                            </RelativeLayout>
                        </android.support.v7.widget.CardView>
                    </RelativeLayout>
                </ScrollView>
            </RelativeLayout>

        </android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

    </android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>

    <android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        app:layout_anchor="@id/appbar"
        app:fabSize="normal"
        app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|right|end"
        android:layout_marginEnd="@dimen/_6sdp"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_done_black_24dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

Now if you paste above code. you will see following result on your device.