I am working on a dialog box in Android, which I am going to make very flexible for different phone resolutions. Therefore, I use the layout_weight attribute when building the XML file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:id="@+id/newGame_linearLayout" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:orientation="vertical" > <LinearLayout android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="0dp" android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" android:layout_weight="3" android:orientation="horizontal" > <ListView android:id="@+id/newGame_InvitedPlayers" android:layout_width="0dp" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_margin="5dp" android:layout_weight="1" android:background="@color/ListView_Background" android:cacheColorHint="#00000000" > </ListView> <ListView android:id="@+id/newGame_Plugins" android:layout_width="0dp" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_margin="5dp" android:layout_weight="1" android:background="@color/ListView_Background" android:cacheColorHint="#00000000" > </ListView> </LinearLayout> <Button android:id="@+id/newGame_sendInvite" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" android:text="Invite Players" /> <TextView android:id="@+id/newGame_textViewOnlinePlayers" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" android:text="Online Players:" /> <ListView android:id="@+id/newGame_onlinePlayers" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="0dp" android:layout_margin="5dp" android:layout_weight="2" android:background="@color/ListView_Background" android:cacheColorHint="#00000000" > </ListView> </LinearLayout>
Here's how it should look:
And really, it seems like I want it.
But when I click the items in the bottom ListView, which removes them from the bottom ListView and adds them to the top left ListView, the bottom ListView is reduced in size until I delete the very last item and it completely disappears and looks like this:
I want this to not change in size at all. Even when it's empty.
Even if dp is a very flexible unit of measure for size, I don’t want to use it in this case, the top two ListViews should occupy 3/5 of the screen, and the bottom will receive the remaining 2/5, and Button and TextView should take up as little space as possible between them .
I tried changing the height of the last Listviews to match_parent, this does not change anything. The list I still disappears when I click items.
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