Question

Observing rather strange behavior in relative layout.

This is the initial state:

Defined as:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/bleedCount"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/abrMult"
    android:layout_below="@+id/textView4"
    android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
    android:ems="10"
    android:inputType="number"
    >
    <requestFocus />
</EditText>

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/abrMult"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/abrSubmit"
    android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/abrSubmit"
    android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
    android:text="x12" />

<Button
    android:id="@+id/abrSubmit"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@+id/textView4"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:text="Calculate" />

On onItemSelected from the dropdown it is being changed like this:

abrSubmit.setText(pos == 1 ? "Calculate" : "Submit");
abrMult.setVisibility(pos == 1 ? View.VISIBLE : View.GONE);
bleedCount.setHint(pos == 1 ? "# of Meow/month" : "# of Meow/year");

and turns into this:

Notice how EditText bleedCount is way taller on the second picture. The value of bleedCount.getHeight() is changing from 72 to 95, and I can’t understand what is causing it.

Answer 1

The bleedCount EditText resizing is due to your hint text becoming longer than a single line when (pos == 1).

If you comment out the following line in your code, the resizing will stop happening:

// bleedCount.setHint(pos == 1 ? "# of Meow/month" : "# of Meow/year");

Maybe you can make it shorter/smaller to prevent the resizing?