android:layout_alignParentBottom is ignored when used without explicit layout height as a row in ListView

Question

When I use a RelativeLayout with either fill_parent or wrap_content as height and an element which specifies: android:layout_alignPa

Answer 1

This seems to be a bug in Android itself, see http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1394.

I worked around it by wrapping my RelativeLayout in a FrameLayout and putting my bottom aligned view as a children of the FrameLayout with android:layout_gravity="bottom". This hinders you from referencing it from within the RelativeLayout so you'll have to work around that (for example using margins).

If anyone has a better workaround, please share.