Question

I’m having an issue here, I’m unfamiliar with layouts on android and I can’t get this layout to do as I wish.

I would like it to appear as follows:

[Button][Button]
Text Filled Here
Text Filled Here
Text Filled Here
Text Filled Here
Text Filled Here

The TextView is populated via my messagehelper that sends the text to the UI

Eventually my code will be iterating through a list of objects retrieved from a web service and displaying them all on their own rows, with an option to press one and view it on a map.

At the moment, I can only get either the two buttons OR the text to show separately, or all three of them on the same line, not the two buttons on the first line and the text populated downwards!!

Here is my code:

<LinearLayout 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
    <LinearLayout 
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:id="@+id/buttonLayout" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1">
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/vehicleButton"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="Refresh"
        android:onClick="getVehicles" />
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/logoutButton"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="Logout"
        android:onClick="logout" />
    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout 
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:id="@+id/textLayout" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent">
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

By default, LinearLayout orientation is horizontal, you need to change the 1st and 3rd LinearLayout orientation on your xml to vertical.

use android:orientation="vertical"