When android calculate width and height of views

This is because in onCreate() the layouts haven't been calculated yet. So you need to add a GlobalLayoutListener to know when layouts has been calculated and placed in screen.

final View view = findViewById(R.id.root); ViewTreeObserver vto = view.getViewTreeObserver(); vto.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() { @Override public void onGlobalLayout() { ViewTreeObserver vto = view.getViewTreeObserver(); vto.removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this); } }); 

Where root is the root layout (LinearLayout, RelativeLayout i.e). Assign your root layout with the @+id/root.

You don't say where you are trying to measure the view but my guess is it's in onCreate() or onResume()>

Try this in your onCreate().

// set a global layout listener which will be called when the layout pass is completed and the view is drawn mainLayout.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener( new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() { public void onGlobalLayout() { // measure your views here } } 

Here, mainLayout is a reference to the root view group of the layout.

This will also be called if the layout is resized after it's first drawn (views added in code, orientation changes etc) so you will always get the correct values.

You can use some View class. add this :

 @Override protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int oldw, int oldh) { super(w,h,oldw,oldh); if(oldw == 0 && w !=0){ ... // w and h is what you want } 

For clarity, according to this Android documentation

When an Activity receives focus, it will be requested to draw its layout.

...and also measure view dimensions.

Focus receives after onResume and lose it after onPause method.