Question

I am trying to display an EditText and a Button horizontally and below of them I want to display a List(ListView). I have try this but it seems it’s only sees the first Layout and nothing else after.

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="1dip"
>  <LinearLayout 
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:weightSum="4"> <EditText
android:id="@+id/search_txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="3"
/>
<Button 
android:id="@+id/search_button"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Go"
android:layout_weight="1"
/> </LinearLayout>  <!-- <EditText
android:id="@+id/testedit_txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="3"
/>
--> <ListView android:id="@+id/android:list"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<TextView android:id="@+id/text1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"    />    <TextView android:id="@+id/text2"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"    /></LinearLayout>

I have also tried and the commented line (EditText) and also it is not showing me anything…
Any idea?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Add

layout_weight="1"

into your horizontal layout.
And you will need to add similar lines in the TextViews at the bottom if you want to see those also.

Your current problem is that you set that one to fill_parent, so when it gets to the ListView, there is no space available.