Put buttons at bottom of screen with LinearLayout?

Question

I have the following code, how do I make it so that the 3 buttons are at the bottom?

Answer 1

You need to ensure four things:

• Your outside LinearLayout has layout_height="match_parent"
• Your inside LinearLayout has layout_weight="1" and layout_height="0dp"
• Your TextView has layout_weight="0"
• You've set the gravity properly on your inner LinearLayout: android:gravity="center|bottom"

Notice that fill_parent does not mean "take up all available space". However, if you use layout_height="0dp" with layout_weight="1", then a view will take up all available space (Can't get proper layout with "fill_parent").

Here is some code I quickly wrote up that uses two LinearLayouts in a similar fashion to your code.

The result looks like similar to this: