Question

I have a tiny linearlayout that I have to fit an imageView and a textView in. I know this is a terrible way to make an app. I’m just trying to test to see if this would work. The code below only shows the imageview and not the textView. Any ideas?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="90dp"
        android:layout_height="90dp"
        android:orientation="vertical" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textView1"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="TextView" />

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/imageView1"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="0"
            android:src="@drawable/my_icon" />
    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

The answer ended up being to give the textView a weight of 0 and the imageView a weight of 1. That way, textView showed up perfectly but only took as much space as it needed, and the imageView took up the rest of the space. Perfect1