Alternative to AbsoluteLayout in Android?

If AbsoluteLayout is deprecated what can I use instea开发者_开发技巧d of it?

I've done an app that uses AbsoluteLayout but it doesn't work well with the different screen resolutions. I use because I can set the X and Y position of a button. Can I set the position of a button using another layout?

you can use RelativeLayouts as described here: Set the absolute position of a view

Use RelativeLayout and set left and right margins like

RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);
lp.leftMargin = x;
lp.topMargin =  y;

Consider using FrameLayout. If you set your child gravity to TOP|LEFT then you can use leftMargin and topMargin as the positions. As a bonus you get a few other useful positioning mechanisms by changing the gravity.

I will suggest you guys if you want to have full control over the positions of your views on the screen just to extend ViewGroup and make your own implementation of AbsoluteLayout. The easiest solution will be to use one of the existing Layouts and play with margins, paddings, gravity and so on, but the control is not gonna be so powerful and can cost some problems on the diff device screens.

I would just use a relative layout and set it based off of the other items/edges of the screen. Otherwise your layout appears different on different devices.