Question

I’ve got the following code:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="150dp"
        android:layout_weight="3"
        android:inputType="textMultiLine" >
    </EditText>

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="top"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="@string/new_post_txt_description" />
</LinearLayout>

Apparently android:layout_gravity="top" does not moves the TextView to the up. Anyone knows how to achieve that?

P.S

I saw some ideas about using RelativeLayout, but in my case i need both of the controls to be next to each other and use weight attribute as in the example.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Changing the textView to this worked for me

<TextView
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:gravity="top"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:text="TEST" />

This takes advantage of gravity instead of layout_gravity, but since the textView’s height is set to fill_parent it has the same effect

android:gravity sets the gravity of the content of the View its used on.
android:layout_gravity sets the gravity of the View or Layout in its parent.