Question

I have a table row defined in XML file.
It contains 3 `LinearLayout’ one on top of the other:
I would like to get this look:

|-------------------------------|
|                               |
|              a                |
|                               |
|                               |
|-------------------------------|
|                               |
|              b                |
|-------------------------------|
|                               |
|              c                |
|-------------------------------|

The “problem” is that the LinearLayout “a” might expand and be at different heights while “b” and “c” are always in the same height.

I would to find the maximum height of the LinearLayout‘s and to enforce this height to be the height of all the other LinearLayout‘s too, so I will get this look for each row:

|-------------------------------|
|                               |
|              a                |
|                               |
|                               |
|-------------------------------|
|                               |
|              b                |
|                               |
|                               |
|-------------------------------|
|                               |
|              c                |
|                               |
|                               |
|-------------------------------|

I tried using android:layout_weight with no success…

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I tried to implement this in one example.
Here is what I did :

<?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" >

        <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:background="#ff0000"
        >
           <TextView 
            android:layout_width="30dip"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="hjadsh haksj hasjk haksj hjkas hkjas hjkas hkjas "
            android:textColor="#000000"
            />

    </LinearLayout>

        <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:background="#00ff00"
        ></LinearLayout>

        <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:background="#0000ff"
        ></LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

I used the textview in the first layout to show that it works as what you need.
You can also fixed the height of the layout b & c to make them of fixed height and vary layout a by setting layout_height:wrap_content

You can now customized it according to your need.