title: Placing/Overlapping(z-index) a view above another view in android
body: <p>I have a linear layout which consists of imageview and textview , one below another in a linear layout.    </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" ... &gt;
   &lt;ImageView 
       android:id="@+id/thumbnail"
       android:layout_weight="0.8" 
       android:layout_width="0dip"
       android:layout_height="fill_parent"&gt;
   &lt;/ImageView&gt;
   &lt;TextView 
      android:id="@+id/description"
      android:layout_weight="0.2"
      android:layout_width="0dip"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"&gt;
   &lt;/TextView&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
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  <p>Some rules might be missing , this is to give an idea , how layout looks.
  I want another small text view of say 50dip in length and width , placed over the imageview, by "over" I meant z-index more than imageview , I want to place this , in the center and above(overlapping) the imageview.</p>
  
  <p>I want to know how can we place one view above the other, with varying z-index (preferably in linear layout) ?</p>