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    copied!<p>I've got a problem with creating a layout in Android.</p> <p>I have a linear layout which should display a TextView, EditView and Button from Top to bottom. Problem is that when I set the width and height attribute of the TextView to "wrap_content" it behaves like "fill_parent" and fills the whole screen in width and height. As a conclusion the 2 other elements(EditView and Button) won't be shown.</p> <p>I just can't figure out what I am doing wrong.</p> <p>Here is my XML file:</p> <pre><code> &lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:background="@drawable/app_background" android:gravity="center_horizontal" android:orientation="vertical" &gt; &lt;TextView android:id="@+id/text_nickname" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_marginTop="15dp" android:gravity="center_horizontal" android:text="@string/label_nickname" android:textColor="#000000" android:textSize="15sp" /&gt; &lt;EditText android:id="@+id/edit_nickname" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:hint="@string/hint_insert_nickname" android:shadowColor="#000000" android:shadowDx="-1" android:shadowDy="-1" android:shadowRadius="1" android:textSize="15sp" /&gt; &lt;Button android:id="@+id/button_play" style="@style/MainButtonTheme" android:layout_marginTop="25dp" android:onClick="click_playButton" android:text="@string/button_start" /&gt; &lt; / LinearLayout&gt; </code></pre> <p>Looking forward to your input.</p> <p>Lots of greetings</p> <p>Siggy</p> <p>Edit:</p> <p>MainButtonStyle:</p> <pre><code> &lt;style name="MainButtonTheme"&gt; &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;@drawable/states_menu_button&lt;/item&gt; &lt;item name="android:layout_width"&gt;wrap_content&lt;/item&gt; &lt;item name="android:layout_height"&gt;wrap_content&lt;/item&gt; &lt;item name="android:textSize"&gt;25sp&lt;/item&gt; &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;#000000&lt;/item&gt; &lt;item name="android:textStyle"&gt;bold&lt;/item&gt; &lt;/style&gt; </code></pre> <p>Edit #2:</p> <p>Here are the screenshots of how it looks like right now and what is desired:</p> <p>Current state:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/I4DJF.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>Desired state:</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/P3yLh.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>I tested it on the phone and it looks like this on the phone as well.</p>
 

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