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    copied!<p>Here's my layout code;</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"&gt; &lt;TextView android:text="@string/welcome" android:id="@+id/TextView" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"&gt; &lt;/TextView&gt; &lt;LinearLayout android:id="@+id/LinearLayout" android:orientation="horizontal" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:gravity="bottom"&gt; &lt;EditText android:id="@+id/EditText" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"&gt; &lt;/EditText&gt; &lt;Button android:text="@string/label_submit_button" android:id="@+id/Button" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"&gt; &lt;/Button&gt; &lt;/LinearLayout&gt; &lt;/LinearLayout&gt; </code></pre> <p>What this looks like is on the left and what I want it to look like is on the right.</p> <p><img src="https://lh4.ggpht.com/_EW60jqE5_B0/S5D_wMGvK7I/AAAAAAAAALs/p5YdtjqMr-E/s800/Android%20Layout.png" alt="Android Layout - Actual (Left) and Desired (Right)"></p> <p>The obvious answer is to set the TextView to fill_parent on height but this causes no room to be left for the button or entry field. Essentially the issue is that I want the submit button and the text entry to be a fixed height at the bottom and the text view to fill the rest of the space, similarly in the horizontal Linear layout I want the submit button to wrap its content and for the text entry to fill the rest of the space.</p> <p>If the first item in a Linear Layout is told to fill_parent it does exactly that, leaving no room for other items, how do I get an item which is first in a linear layout to fill all space apart from the minimum required by the rest of the items in the layout?</p> <p>EDIT:</p> <p>Relative Layouts were indeed the answer - Thank you!</p> <pre><code> &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"&gt; &lt;TextView android:text="@string/welcome" android:id="@+id/TextView" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentTop="true"&gt; &lt;/TextView&gt; &lt;RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/InnerRelativeLayout" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" &gt; &lt;Button android:text="@string/label_submit_button" android:id="@+id/Button" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"&gt; &lt;/Button&gt; &lt;EditText android:id="@+id/EditText" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/Button" android:layout_height="wrap_content"&gt; &lt;/EditText&gt; &lt;/RelativeLayout&gt; &lt;/RelativeLayout&gt; </code></pre>
 

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