title: Android Layout On Top of an Image
body: <p>I am struggling with a Layout Problem on Android. This is very simple to do on the iPhone, but with the various screen sizes and the Layout classes available. I am having a hard time doing this. </p>
  
  <p>One thing that I have noticed is that setting backgrounds on objects in the xml really messes up the layout on the device. I generally have to put in a FrameLayout and an ImageView to get a background.</p>
  
  <p>So Am trying to get to this. <a href="http://www.calidadsystems.com/images/AndroidListItem.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.calidadsystems.com/images/AndroidListItem.png</a> (Sorry I don't have enough pts to post the image)</p>
  
  <p>his is a status view and is an item in a List View. There are 8 TextViews that need to be set. Each of the 222 fields will change. The current background has the colors in there at specific locations and I am trying to line up the Labels and TextViews to get the picture below. I built this one with AbsoluteLayout which is deprecated, but it also does not work very well on the device. </p>
  
  <p>I have constantly struggled with the layouts on Android. Does someone have some good sample code that could do this?</p>