android - Square layout on GridLayoutManager for RecyclerView

Question

I try to make a grid-layout with square images. I thought that it must be possible to manipulate the GridLayoutManager by manipulating onMeasure to do a

super.onMeasure(recycler, state, widthSpec, widthSpec); 

instead of

super.onMeasure(recycler, state, widthSpec, heightSpec);

but unfortunately, that didn't work.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

To have the square elements in my RecyclerView, I provide a simple wrapper for my root View element; I use the following SquareRelativeLayout in place of RelativeLayout.

package net.simplyadvanced.widget;

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;

/** A RelativeLayout that will always be square -- same width and height,
 * where the height is based off the width. */
public class SquareRelativeLayout extends RelativeLayout {

    public SquareRelativeLayout(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public SquareRelativeLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public SquareRelativeLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
    }

    @TargetApi(VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
    public SquareRelativeLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs,         int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr, defStyleRes);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        // Set a square layout.
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, widthMeasureSpec);
    }

}

Then, in my XML layout for the adapter, I've just referenced the custom view as shown in the following. Though, you can do this programmatically also.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<net.simplyadvanced.widget.SquareRelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/elementRootView"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <!-- More widgets here. -->

</net.simplyadvanced.widget.SquareRelativeLayout>

Note: Depending on which orientation your grid is, then you may want to have the width based off of height (GridLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL) instead of the height being based off the width (GridLayoutManager.VERTICAL).