Question

I can’t find a solution for that. I managed to solve the problem of NOT overlapping the scrollview with my button+textview at the bottom, but I still can’t manage to have the scrollview starting from the top of the screen rather than from just above my button.

Note that even the bottom linearlayout (button+textview) isn’t exactly what I wanted. I can’t find a way to have everything positioned correctly.

Eclipse is not helping either, since the text view of the xml keeps changing under my mouse, making it extremely annoying. I had to open an external editor to edit it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center|top" >
<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/LinearLayout2"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" >
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text_phrase"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Large Text"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="right"
        android:text="@string/play" />
</LinearLayout>
<ScrollView
    android:id="@+id/scrollView1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_above="@+id/LinearLayout2"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_marginBottom="18dp" >




    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/layout_player_checkboxes"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="top"
        android:orientation="vertical" >

        <CheckBox
            android:id="@+id/checkBox1"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="CheckBox" />
    </LinearLayout>

</ScrollView>

Answer 1

if you add android:layout_alignParentTop="true" and android:layout_weight="1" to your scrollview while leaving the rest of what you have already, it should start at the top and fill the screen below until it comes to linearlayout2. (Same applies if you decide to switch to a listview as rajesh.adhi suggested)

Oh, you seem to be missing a </RelativeLayout> there too.