Question

I have a layout that has a horizontal container, then 2 vertical containers inside it.
The first vertical container has a web view followed by a textview. The textview does not get created and the webview fills the height. I tried to set the height of the web control by
android:layout_height=”60px”, but it seems like it is not working.

The xml file

<?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="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello" />

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/mainLayout"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="center" 
        android:orientation="horizontal">


        <LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/mainLayout"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:orientation="vertical">

         <WebView
            android:id="@+id/webAuthor"
            android:layout_width="60px"
            android:layout_height="60px"
            android:layout_weight="1.0"  />

          <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textChats"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="hello" />

        </LinearLayout> 

        <LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/mainLayout"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:background="@drawable/eventsbakground"  
            android:orientation="vertical">

            <ImageView                  
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:src="@drawable/addbanner"
                android:id="@+id/butAdd"    
                android:layout_gravity="center"   
                android:layout_marginTop="12px" />

            <ListView
                android:id="@+id/mylist"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
            </ListView>    

        </LinearLayout>                    
    </LinearLayout>          
</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

As mentioned @Vikram Singh , Remove android:layout_weight="1.0", when you set your view’s layout_weight to “1.0” it means that this view must fill hole parent.

With layout_weight you can specify a size ratio between multiple views. E.g. you have a MapView and a table which should show some additional information to the map. The map should use 3/4 of the screen and table should use 1/4 of the screen. Then you will set the layout_weight of the map to 3 and the layout_weight of the table to 1. But When you are setting 1 to only one it’ll fill parent