Question

I am trying to arrange two buttons in an horizontal LinearLayout so that they are evenly distributed, but at the same time the buttons do not stretch over the available space (just has empty space in between).

I am trying to follow what I found in this question, especially the comment from Andrew…

My current layout looks like this.

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <LinearLayout
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:background="#ffffff"
        android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight">
    <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            >
        <Button
                android:id="@+id/db_export_cancel"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
                android:text="Cancel"
                />
    </LinearLayout>
    <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            >
        <Button
                android:id="@+id/db_export_ok"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
                android:text="OK"
                />
    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

The two LinearLayouts are properly using each half of the available space, but the buttons are aligned to the left in each of them…

Answer 1

Change each of the inner LinearLayouts to have vertical orientation. Each should then pay attention to the horizontal gravity of its enclosed Button.