Android Linear Layout - How to Keep Element At Bottom Of View?

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Androider picture Androider · Mar 24, 2011 · Viewed 119.2k times · Source

I have a TextView which I want to pin at the bottom of a landscape activity that is using LinearLayout with vertically arranged elements.

I have set android:gravity="bottom" on the text view, but it still likes to be just below the last element of the LinearLayout exactly what I do not want it to do.

Any suggestions?

Answer

Matthew Willis picture Matthew Willis · Mar 24, 2011

You will have to expand one of your upper views to fill the remaining space by setting android:layout_weight="1" on it. This will push your last view down to the bottom.

Here is a brief sketch of what I mean:

<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical">
    <View/>
    <View android:layout_weight="1"/>
    <View/>
    <View android:id="@+id/bottom"/>
</LinearLayout>

where each of the child view heights is "wrap_content" and everything else is "fill_parent".

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