How to find the Width of the a view before the view is displayed?

Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay(); View view = findViewById(R.id.YOUR_VIEW_ID); view.measure(display.getWidth(), display.getHeight()); view.getMeasuredWidth(); // view width view.getMeasuredHeight(); //view height 

@dmytrodanylyk -- I think it will return width & height as 0 so you need to use following thing

LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); View contentview = inflater.inflate(R.layout.YOURLAYOUTNAME, null, false); contentview.measure(View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED, View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED); int width = contentview.getMeasuredWidth(); int height = contentview.getMeasuredHeight(); 

It will give you right height & width.

You should use OnGlobalLayoutListener which is called for changes on the view, but before it is drawn.

costumView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() { @Override public void onGlobalLayout() { costumView.getWidth(); } }); 

Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay(); Point size = new Point(); display.getSize(size); view.measure(size.x, size.y); int width = view.getMeasuredWidth(); int height = view.getMeasuredHeight(); 

I like to use this technique as per my answer on a related question:

Post a runnable from onCreate() that will be executed when the view has been created:

 contentView = findViewById(android.R.id.content); contentView.post(new Runnable() { public void run() { contentHeight = contentView.getHeight(); } }); 

This code will run on the main UI thread, after onCreate() has finished.

This is the best way...... WORK!!!

public void onWindowFocusChanged(boolean hasFocus) { super.onWindowFocusChanged(hasFocus); if (fondo_iconos_height==0) { // to ensure that this does not happen more than once fondo_iconos.getLocationOnScreen(loc); fondo_iconos_height = fondo_iconos.getHeight(); redraw_function(); } }