LinearLayout: layout_gravity=“bottom” not working on Horizontal LinearLayout

Question

Ok, First of all, I searched all the internet, but nobody has a similar problem like this. So, all I want is to have 3 textViews, bottom aligned with the screen and with the

Answer 1

The Correct Answer

All the other answers are wrong. The important points:

1. You don't need RelativeLayout. You can do this with just a LinearLayout.
2. (Not critical but I guess you didn't know) Your weights don't need to sum to 1, you can just set them all to any equal value (e.g. 1).
3. The critical thing is you need android:baselineAligned="false". I actually only found this by looking through the LinearLayout source. It is in the docs but they don't mention that it is on by default!

Anyway, here is the code:

And how it looks: