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

Question

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

Answer 1

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:

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