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Adding a view to a page

You can add a custom View or UIView object to a page.

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Add a custom view to a PDF page in Xamarin

This tutorial only applies to Xamarin.Android. See Xamarin.iOS equivalent here .

CustomRelativeLayout is a RelativeLayout that can be nested under PDFViewCtrl with a given page position and page number. All child views of CustomRelativeLayout are displayed on top of PDFViewCtrl. When PDFViewCtrl is scrolling or zooming, CustomRelativeLayout will adjust position and size automatically according to the app:zoomWithParent attribute.

The position of CustomRelativeLayout is calculated in PDF page coordinates. In page coordinate, the origin location (0, 0) is at the bottom left corner of the PDF page. The x axis extends horizontally to the right and y axis extends vertically upward. For more information, see: understanding coordinates

Show CustomRelativeLayout

You can add CustomRelativeLayout as a child view of PDFViewCtrl in your XML layout resource file:

<pdftron.PDF.PDFViewCtrl
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/pdfviewctrl"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:scrollbars="vertical|horizontal" >
  <pdftron.PDF.Tools.CustomRelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="50dp"
    android:layout_height="50dp"
    app:posX="50"
    app:posY="150"
    app:pageNum="3"
    app:zoomWithParent="true">
    <!--Child views under CustomRelativeLayout-->
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:text="Custom Layout Text View"
        android:textSize="24dp"
        android:elevation="2dp"/>
    <View
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="@color/light_gray" />
  </pdftron.PDF.Tools.CustomRelativeLayout>
</pdftron.PDF.PDFViewCtrl>

If you delete the page defined in CustomRelativeLayout, the CustomRelativeLayoutwill not be removed from PDFViewCtrl. Please remember to remove CustomRelativeLayout manually.

Add custom layout from separate layout file

Alternatively, you can also add CustomRelativeLayout from separate layout file. Here is an example where the CustomRelativeLayout is inflated and added directly to PDFViewCtrl.

Define an XML layout resource file containing a CustomRelativeLayout. For example, our layout file R.layout.custom_layout_textview shown below contains a CustomRelativeLayout with two child views:

<pdftron.PDF.Tools.CustomRelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="50dp"
    android:layout_height="50dp"
    app:posX="50"
    app:posY="150"
    app:pageNum="3"
    app:zoomWithParent="true">
    <!--Child views under CustomRelativeLayout-->
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:text="Custom Layout Text View"
        android:textSize="24dp"
        android:elevation="2dp"/>
    <View
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="@color/light_gray" />
</pdftron.PDF.Tools.CustomRelativeLayout>

2. Then you can inflate the layout and add it directly to `PDFViewCtrl`:

If you delete the page defined in CustomRelativeLayout, the CustomRelativeLayoutwill not be removed from PDFViewCtrl. Please remember to remove CustomRelativeLayout manually.

Add custom layout programmatically

You can also add the custom layout programmatically. The code below uses CustomRelativeLayoutconstructor to create a custom layout equivalent to previous examples:

```java //@data {"m":true}// CustomRelativeLayout customRelativeLayout = new CustomRelativeLayout(this, pdfViewCtrl, 50, 150, 3); customRelativeLayout.setZoomWithParent(true);

TextView textView = new TextView(this); textView.setText("Custom Layout Text View"); textView.setTextSize(24);

View view = new View(this); view.setBackgroundColor(Color.LTGRAY);

customRelativeLayout.addView(view); customRelativeLayout.addView(textView); pdfViewCtrl.addView(customRelativeLayout);

CustomRelativeLayout customRelativeLayout = new CustomRelativeLayout(this, pdfViewCtrl, 50, 150, 3);
customRelativeLayout.SetZoomWithParent(true);

TextView textView = new TextView(this);
textView.Text = "Custom Layout Text View";
textView.TextSize = 24;

View view = new View(this);
view.SetBackgroundColor(Android.Graphics.Color.LightGray);

customRelativeLayout.AddView(view);
customRelativeLayout.AddView(textView);
pdfViewCtrl.AddView(customRelativeLayout);

XML attributes

CustomRelativeLayout allows child views to be displayed inside PDFViewCtrl. XML attributes for positioning CustomRelativeLayout in PDFViewCtrl are defined in the table below:

Attribute	Description
`app:posX`	Specifies the x-coordinate in PDF page coordinates . Default value: 0
`app:posY`	Specifies the y-coordinate in PDF page coordinates . Default value: 0
`app:pageNum`	Specifies the page number of the document that will contain this `CustomRelativeLayout`. Default value: 1
`app:zoomWithParent`	Specifies whether the `CustomRelativeLayout` will zoom with parent. Default value: true
`android:layout_width`	Specifies the width of the view, it must be a positive integer in PDF page coordinates .
`android:layout_height`	Specifies the height of the view, it must be a positive integer in PDF page coordinates .

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