Android LinearLayout fill-the-middle

Question

I have a vertical, set height (300px) LinearLayout (LL) with 3 nested LLs. 1 and 3rd are set with android:layout_height=\"wrap_content\" and the middle one with android:layo

Answer 1

Turned out (Thanks Mark Murphy for the answer) that all I was looking for was to set middle row to

layout_height="0px" and layout_weight="1"

If, after all the wrap_content and fixed-sized items are allocated for along an axis (horizontal or vertical), there is still room on that axis left over, LinearLayout then allocates the remaining space to those widgets with specified weights, in proportion to the weight.