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Courses Plus Student 153 PointsLet's add some padding to our layout! Use the 'android:padding' attribute to give our layout 16dp of padding. ?am stuck
what should i do please help
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#fff092b0">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:text="Treehouse loves me!"
android:textSize="72sp"
android:textColor="@android:color/white"/>\
<!-- Default screen margins, per the Android Design guidelines. -->
<dimen testView="activity_horizontal_margin">16dp</dimen>
<dimen textView="activity_vertical_margin">16dp</dimen>
</RelativeLayout>
1 Answer
Alla Konstantinova
Android Development Techdegree Student 2,226 PointsThe ViewGroup wraps your layout, so by adding android:padding="16dp"
to the RelativeLayout will make the whole layout's padding 16dp.