Place 3 buttons in a LinearLayout to occupy equal amount of space

Question

i would like to have three buttons taking equal amount of available space horizontally in a row. I used android:layout_gravity. What is the problem?

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Answer 1

besides of setting a layout_weight you have to set layout_width or layout_height to 0dp. So if you want for example to distribute the buttons horizontally , layout_width should be 0dp and layout_weight .2 or any number as long as is equal through the buttons you have.

so your layout should be like this