Question

If you add only one button in a whole new Activity, the screen looks like this:

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



<Button android:id="@+id/Button01" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="false" 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" ></Button>


</LinearLayout>

But if you add a ListView, then everything is OK:

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

<ListView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
          android:id="@+id/contactList"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:layout_weight="1"/>

<Button android:id="@+id/Button01" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="false" 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" ></Button>


</LinearLayout>

EDIT: This only happened in QVGA mode. HVGA mode worked fine.

Answer 1

I don’t see what the problem is. This makes perfect sense. In your first layout you used fill_parent on the linear layout and wrap_content on the button.

The button did exactly what it was supposed to. It filled it’s width and height using the width/height of the text inside as dictated by wrap_content.

If you are expecting the button to fill the whole screen, you need to use fill_parent on the actual view.

Edit: Your code works perfectly fine for me in HVGA, QVGA, and WVGA.