Question

I have a code like this:

...
    <LinearLayout
       android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:weightSum="10">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_weight="1" /> 

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_weight="8"> 

    <TextView android:id="@+id/text2"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_weight="1" /> 

     </LinearLayout>
...

This code is nested in other linearlayout’s which have the same weightSum and weight.
The SDK I use is 1.6 Android. I cannot figure out why the amount of space assigned to the elements with weight equal to 1 is different if I remove the TextView in the middle. It seems that even if the Text size (number of chars) of the TextView are more, the LinearLayouts with weight 1 got’s smaller .. How is this possible?

Answer 1

I found the solution. Practically I needed to set the Layout_width of each container with the weight property to 0px.