Add Button on custom View in Android

Question

I have the following class

public class GameActivity extends Activity {
   @Override
   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      View gameView = new GameView(this);
      setContentView(gameView);
   }
}

and now I'd like to add a Button to my class GameView.

public GameView(Context context) {
        super(context);
// Code ...
}

I need this button during my game, so it should be alywas in front of all the other canvas' I'm drawing.
How can I do that?

Answer 1

Do you want to create a new button?

Button b = new Button(context);
b.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 
                                   LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)); 

gameView.addView(b);

Use ViewGroup as GameView parent insted of simple View

ViewGroup gameView = new GameView(this);


public class GameView extends ViewGroup { //...