Question

I’m trying to put the buttonbar I’ve created on the bottom of each screen. I’ve succeeded for the first screen fairly easy.

Now I’ve tried to put it other screens, but it seems that it can’t stick to the bottom of the screen. When I look in the hiearchyviewer, it looks like the RelativeLayout that’s wrapped araound my layout and buttonbar, isn’t filling the whole screen, though, its height is set to fill parent.

Can anyone help me by pointing out where I’m going wrong?

This is the XML I use:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<RelativeLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical">
    <TableLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:padding="5pt" android:id="@+id/table"
        android:stretchColumns="1">
        <TableRow>
            <TextView android:text="@string/Arbeiderbediende"
                android:id="@+id/txtArbeiderBediende" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
        </TableRow>

        <TableRow android:gravity="center">
            <RadioGroup android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:orientation="horizontal"
                android:id="@+id/group1">

                <RadioButton style="@style/RadioButton"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/rbArbeider"
                    android:text="@string/Arbeider" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:paddingLeft="18pt" />

                <RadioButton style="@style/RadioButton"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/rbBediende"
                    android:text="@string/Bediende" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="20pt" android:paddingLeft="18pt" />
            </RadioGroup>
        </TableRow>

        <TableRow android:gravity="center" android:paddingTop="5dip">
            <TextView android:text="@string/OverzichtFuncties"
                android:id="@+id/txtFuncties" android:layout_width="0dip"
                android:layout_weight="1" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

            <Spinner android:layout_height="wrap_content" style="Spinner"
                android:layout_width="0dip" android:layout_weight="2"
                android:id="@+id/cmbFuncties" />
        </TableRow>

        <TableRow android:gravity="center" android:paddingTop="5dip">
            <TextView android:text="@string/Regio" android:id="@+id/txtRegio"
                android:layout_width="0dip" android:layout_weight="1"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

            <Spinner android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="0dip" android:layout_weight="2" android:id="@+id/cmbRegio" />
        </TableRow>

        <TableRow android:gravity="center" android:paddingTop="5dip">
            <TextView android:text="@string/Opleiding" android:id="@+id/txtOpleidingsniveau"
                android:layout_width="0dip" android:layout_weight="1"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

            <Spinner android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="0dip" android:layout_weight="2"
                android:id="@+id/cmbOpleidingsniveau" />
        </TableRow>

        <Button android:text="@string/VindJobButton" android:id="@+id/btnFindJob"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="10dip" />


    </TableLayout>

    <stage.accent.Toolbar android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="70dip" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_below="@+id/table" />
</RelativeLayout>

This is the result I achieved and the result I want to get

Answer 1

In case you want your buttonbar to be always visible at the bottom of the screen and not scroll with the content, you might want to switch your RelativeLayout and ScrollView tags, and move your buttonbar to be the first child of your RelativeLayout, the ScrollView to be the second:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical">
    <stage.accent.Toolbar android:id="id/buttonBar" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="70dip" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" />
    <ScrollView android:layout_above="@+id/buttonBar"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
        <TableLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:padding="5pt" android:id="@+id/table"
            android:stretchColumns="1">
            <TableRow>
                <TextView android:text="@string/Arbeiderbediende"
                    android:id="@+id/txtArbeiderBediende" android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
            </TableRow>
            <TableRow android:gravity="center">
                <RadioGroup android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:orientation="horizontal"
                    android:id="@+id/group1">

                    <RadioButton style="@style/RadioButton"
                        android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/rbArbeider"
                        android:text="@string/Arbeider" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                        android:paddingLeft="18pt" />

                    <RadioButton style="@style/RadioButton"
                        android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/rbBediende"
                        android:text="@string/Bediende" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                        android:layout_marginLeft="20pt" android:paddingLeft="18pt" />
                </RadioGroup>
            </TableRow>
            <TableRow android:gravity="center" android:paddingTop="5dip">
                <TextView android:text="@string/OverzichtFuncties"
                    android:id="@+id/txtFuncties" android:layout_width="0dip"
                    android:layout_weight="1" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

                <Spinner android:layout_height="wrap_content" style="Spinner"
                    android:layout_width="0dip" android:layout_weight="2"
                    android:id="@+id/cmbFuncties" />
            </TableRow>
            <TableRow android:gravity="center" android:paddingTop="5dip">
                <TextView android:text="@string/Regio" android:id="@+id/txtRegio"
                    android:layout_width="0dip" android:layout_weight="1"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

                <Spinner android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_width="0dip" android:layout_weight="2" android:id="@+id/cmbRegio" />
            </TableRow>
            <TableRow android:gravity="center" android:paddingTop="5dip">
                <TextView android:text="@string/Opleiding" android:id="@+id/txtOpleidingsniveau"
                    android:layout_width="0dip" android:layout_weight="1"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

                <Spinner android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_width="0dip" android:layout_weight="2"
                    android:id="@+id/cmbOpleidingsniveau" />
            </TableRow>
            <Button android:text="@string/VindJobButton" android:id="@+id/btnFindJob"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginTop="10dip" />
        </TableLayout>
    </ScrollView>
</RelativeLayout>

This way you’ll be able to achieve what you want:

and

The button bar will be always at the bottom of your screen.

And by scrolling the content, you’ll be able to see the last bit of it too, it won’t be hidden behind the buttonbar: