Question

I am trying to achieve exactly something like this

– a text view on left and a button to its right
– Button should be wrap_text
– textedit should occupy the remaining space

If you carefully see the image in the image the buttons left curved border are hiding under the text view.

I am using relative layout to adjust the button height according to this

How to get a button's height to match another element's height?

But I am unable to hide the left portion of the button.

Answer 1

Actually the Button isn’t hidden under the EditText.

They used custom background for that button, which is 9 patch png image. You can achieve this by providing your 9 patch images for both EditText and Button with 0 margin between them.

Here is a nice tutorial about using 9 patch png.

Another post to consider is Buttons with (niceley) stretched background.