As the idea of the Android evolved, Android has received wide attention and deployed on a very wide range of devices. Android UI had to move and make developers’ life easier: AbsoluteLayout got deprecated. It is very logical because your app will be installed on very small devices and very large devices and all the devices in between.
Now, it is all WRAP_CONTENT, FILL_PARENT/MATCH_PARENT. Yet, a developer sometimes needs to know the dimensions of his view to do some extra tweaks to perfect his ui.
So, what is the best way to do so? Well, there are several ways of getting the dimensions of a view. Most of them boil down to waiting the layout of the view hierarchy. In case you still have not gotten into the problem of getWidth() and getHeight() returning 0, well that is very normal in Android as the width and height of a view are zero until they are visible, measured, and part of the layout.
In the following I will assume that your View is called view. ** **