A subview will always be drawn on “top” of its superview. Depending on your specific requirements, you may need to have a plain UIView as the background/container view, with your existing subviews in there, and then your custom view as another subview added to the very top, so it has the highest Z-order. This would … Read more
Call the GetChildIndex and SetChildIndex methods of the parent’s Controls collection.
I realize that this has been implied in other answers, but no one posted the code. I keep the following in a utility class where I have “helper” functions for dealing with views: public static void sendViewToBack(final View child) { final ViewGroup parent = (ViewGroup)child.getParent(); if (null != parent) { parent.removeView(child); parent.addView(child, 0); } }
You can call bringToFront() on the view you want to get in the front This is an example: yourView.bringToFront();
The easiest way is simply to pay attention to the order in which the Views are added to your XML file. Lower down in the file means higher up in the Z-axis. Edit: This is documented here and here on the Android developer site. (Thanks @flightplanner)