Creating An Android Layout With 2 Resizing Views

In my layout, I need a header, a list-view, and a footer with a TextView. The TextView needs to be resizable to up to 5 lines. Think facebook chat, where you have the blue header w

Solution 1:

The problem was that the footer layout included is another RelativeLayout. The footer layout contains elements that set layout_alignParentBottom="true", which made the footer layout take up the entire screen. I have no idea why it would do that, but that's what happens.

Solution 2:

For creating a UI like this create a layout

header.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><LinearLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:orientation="horizontal" ><TextViewandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:paddingLeft="5dp"android:text="xyz"android:textSize="10dp" /></LinearLayout>

for footer:

footer.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><LinearLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:orientation="horizontal" ><EditTextandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:paddingLeft="5dp"android:text="xyz"android:textSize="10dp" /></LinearLayout>

Create another layout that will contain listView as you said : main.xml

<RelativeLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:layout_width="fill_parent"android:layout_height="fill_parent"android:layout_gravity="center"android:gravity="center"android:orientation="vertical" >
 **<includelayout="@layout/header.xml"android:layout_alignParentTop="true"/>**   
<ListViewandroid:id="@+id/listview"android:layout_width="fill_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:clickable="true"
        ></ListView>
 **<includelayout="@layout/footer.xml"android:layout_below="@+id/listview"android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"/>**   
</RelativeLayout>

Solution 3:

check this...I hope it helps. At the moment I have defined an array.xml in Values folder with some empty entries for ListView. You will have to handle it with code.

<LinearLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent"android:orientation="vertical" ><TextViewandroid:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:text="HEADER" /><ListViewandroid:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:entries="@array/chats"android:layout_weight="1"></ListView><EditTextandroid:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:lines="5"android:inputType="textMultiLine"android:hint=" Please enter your Chat" /></LinearLayout>