Question

I am trying to create a custom tabbed layout with a viewflipper. Therefore, I need two buttons side-by-side at the top of the screen. I have this. However, I am trying to get the viewFlipper content below these two buttons. Here is my current XML (which does not show the textviews)

        <LinearLayout
 android:id="@+id/linearLayout01" 
 android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
 android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
 android:orientation="vertical"
 android:background="#FAFAFA"
 xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <LinearLayout 
        android:id="@+id/linearLayout02" 
        android:orientation="vertical" 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
            <Button android:id="@+id/button1" android:text="button 1" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="0dip" layout_weight = ".5"/>
            <Button android:id="@+id/button2" android:text="button 2" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="0dip" layout_weight = ".5"/>
    </LinearLayout>
<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/relativeLayout01"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="0dp"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:layout_below="@id/linearLayout02">
    <ViewFlipper 
        android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:id="@+id/viewFlipper01">

        <include 
            android:id="@+id/one" 
            layout="@layout/view_one" />
        <include 
            android:id="@+id/two" 
            layout="@layout/view_two" />

    </ViewFlipper>
    </RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

Your LinearLayout that contains the buttons has a layout_height="fill_parent". You need to set that to wrap_content and also specify the orientation="vertical" in the parent LinearLayout. You’ll also need to specify a layout_weight for the view that you want to stretch to fill.

Because linearLayout01 LinearLayout has its layout_height set to fill_parent, android is going to make it take up the reset of the screen. The content below that will not be visible at all because it is off the screen.

<LinearLayout
 android:id="@+id/linearLayout01" 
 android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
 android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
 android:orientation="vertical" 
 xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<LinearLayout
 android:id="@+id/linearLayout02" 
 android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
 android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <Button android:id="@+id/button01" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Button 1" android:layout_width="0dip" android:layout_weight="1"></Button>
    <Button android:id="@+id/button02" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Button 2" android:layout_width="0dip" android:layout_weight="1"></Button>
</LinearLayout>

<RelativeLayout
 android:id="@+id/relativeLayout01" 
 android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
 android:layout_height="0dp"
 android:layout_weight="1">
    <ViewFlipper
        android:id="@+id/flipper01"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        >
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textview01"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Text"
        />  
        <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textview02"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Text2"
        />  

    </ViewFlipper>
    </RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>