Using layout_gravity=“bottom” to place at bottom of LinearLayout

Question

I would like to place a layout on the bottom of a LinearLayout, but I can\'t seem to get it to work. I know that I can use RelativeLayout to do this, but I should be able to

Answer 1

So I resolved the problem. It's a two-part solution:

First, the way to do this without using LinearLayout is to provide weight to the element above so that it takes up all of the empty space. BTW, you can see this example in the API demos: http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/res/layout/linear_layout_3.html

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This by itself didn't solve my problem, as I had a NoSaveStateFrameLayout with layout_width="wrap_content" as a parent view, and so I needed to get that fixed first. I'm using code based on the wonderful Google I/O App, and when I searched the code for NoSaveStateFrameLayout, I found this:

// For some reason, if we omit this, NoSaveStateFrameLayout thinks we are
// FILL_PARENT / WRAP_CONTENT, making the progress bar stick to the top of the activity.
mRootView.setLayoutParams(new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,
        ViewGroup.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT));

Thanks for an awesome comment Google!!! I added this into my source and everything worked great!

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