Question

I have a scrollable text and ads at the bottom, but the ads doesn’t go all the way to the bottom.
Have tried RelativeLayout but if I use it, the ad sticks in the middle of the screen.
Have been playing around a lot, but can’t seem to make it stay at the bottom and have a scrollable text filling the rest of the screen.

<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:background="@drawable/box_background"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">



   <ScrollView
       android:id="@+id/ScrollView01"  
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:layout_width="fill_parent"
       android:padding="30dp">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/Button_2_Text"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        android:textSize="17dp"></TextView>
        </ScrollView>

    <com.google.ads.AdView 
    android:gravity="bottom"
    xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.aurumlabs.excuses"
    android:id="@+id/adView" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
    ads:adUnitId="a14f19b3aec0a93" 
    ads:adSize="BANNER"/>
    </LinearLayout>

Answer 1

What if you tried using a RelativeLayout but set android:layout_above="@+id/adView" on the ScrollView as well as android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" for the AdView

There’s a good blog post about this on the Google Ads Developer blog here