Question

I want to devide screen into 2 vertical segments. Bottom toolbar should be fixed – Let’s say I want LinearLayout to stay at bottom no matter what.

On top – I want ScrollView that will grow up to toolbar and then allow to scroll. Otherwise – it can be completely empty but toolbar still need to be on a bottom.

How can I achieve that?

Answer 1

As always, there are several ways. I would do the following

<?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">
        <ScrollView
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="0dip"
            android:layout_weight="1">
        </ScrollView>
        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent">
        <Button
            android:text="Button1"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>
        <Button
            android:text="Button2"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>
        </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

This uses a vertical linear layout and puts the buttons on the bottom using wrap_content, then gives the ScrollView the rest of the space by giving it a weight of “1”.