Question

I’m trying to place a TextView at the bottom of every activity by using the include… My code is below… I don’t know why, but it remains at top… Although it works fine for TextView.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
   <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="#E0E0E0"
    android:orientation="vertical" />

    <include
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:id="@+id/footer"
        layout="@layout/footer" />


    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:text="Hello"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:textSize="15dp" />

Answer 1

¿Maybe you are using a LinearLayout instead of a RelativeLayout? The latter doesn’t have android:orientation property. We don’t see the parent XML node, so just a guess

Also, you’ll need to place the include at the bottom and the TextView above it

<TextView
...
android:layout_above="@id/footer" />

Right now you are overlapping both views

Another suggestion is to use FragmentActivity and a Fragment to handle the Footer, but that’s out of the scope of this question.