Question

Here I have EditText and ImageButton:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/layout1"
    android:weightSum="1.0">

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/searchBox"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="@string/search"
        android:layout_weight=".86"
        android:textStyle="italic|normal"
        android:typeface="normal"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:ellipsize="end" />

    <ImageButton
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_width="0px"
        android:layout_weight=".14"
        android:background="@drawable/search_button_selector"/>

</LinearLayout>

Everything seems to be OK, unless I start typing text in EditText.

At the beginning it looks like this:

And after typing text, my ImageButton gets smaller:

How to make EditText stand still?

Answer 1

I believe changing the EditText’s layout_width to android:layout_width="0dp" will fix it. This will allow the LinearLayout to control the width to fill the space dictated by your weights.