How To Bring A View To Front Without Calling Bringtofront()?

There is apparently a bug in Android which breaks View.bringToFront. If I have Views arranged in a GridView and want to bring a View to front by calling bringToFront(), it may get

Solution 1:

apparently I missed the android:clipChildren="false" property in GridView. It solves my problem.

Solution 2:

Have you tried making the View focusable and just calling requestFocus()?

Solution 3:

Calling bringToFront() changes the ordering in the GridView. Try creating an ImageView with an image of the view you want to animate and animate that instead.

Bitmapbitmap= Bitmap.createBitmap(view.getWidth(), view.getHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvascanvas=newCanvas(bitmap);
view.draw(canvas);
finalImageViewimageView=newImageView(getActivity());
imageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
ViewGroup.LayoutParamsparams=newViewGroup.LayoutParams(view.getWidth() , view.getHeight());
imageView.setLayoutParams(params);
rootview.addView(imageView);

Add an animation listener to your animation and remove the ImageView at the end of the animation.

Solution 4:

From API 21 you can call:

view.setZ(float)

Solution 5:

If you target API above 21, you can simply add the attribute android:translationZ="xxx dp" to your XML.

Please note that if you add elevation in views like cardview, you go into the Z axis. And if you want a view come to foreground using this way, you just have to make it higher than the elevation you set.

Example : 6 dp elevation in cardview will require a 7dp in the attribute translationZ of the view you want foreground.