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How to set layout height to one screen height except actionbar and status bar, in scrollview

I have a layout in a scrollview and I add another layout to the end of the first one. Actually I am trying to make a one page design and the rest of the other views will appear after scrolling. I tried to put linearlayout1 and linearlayout2 to another view but it didn't work. Also I set scrollview android:fillViewport="true" but it made the scrollview in screen size.
I've added an image of what I want, but it could also be one view, I mean lin1 and lin2 together.
I can set width and height for one phone but I want to do this for each screen. For example like yahoo weather app. They have done one layout for first view and start another view from the end of screen. I tried so many things but I couldn't imagine how to put layouts. Could you help me?
Thanks for your help
Here is what I want
Here is I tried:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/scroller"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/linearlayout1"
android:background="#android:color/holo_purple"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="350dp" >
<TextView
android:text="LinearLayout1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/linearlayout2"
android:background="#android:color/holo_blue_bright"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="250dp"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
android:text="LinearLayout2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:background="#android:color/holo_green_light"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="350dp">
<TextView
android:text="LnearLayout3"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
But unfortunately I couldn't configure this for each screen size.
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Just try this.
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_below="#+id/action_bar"

Instead of hardcoding the height as in:
android:layout_height="250dp"
Set android:layout_height="0dp" and use
android:layout_weight="25"
And also in the other layout use weight. Weight works like this, if you have 3 components in your container, set the weights to let's say 1, 2 and 3 => they will take in that order 1/6, 2/6 and 3/6 of the container. 6 being the sum of 1,2,3. So here instead of using heights as 350 and 250, you can set them to 0 and use weights 2.5 and 3.5 or 25 and 35.

Layout issue with Android Studio

Recently picking up android development, I have hit a snag in the road. I'm having trouble positioning my layouts. Screenshots are as follows:
I'm trying to input either another layout type/list view in the upper section of the screen, without disrupting the button/text box at the bottom, though.. When extending this layout. I hit the following snag:
The entire contents of the original frame shift when the box of the new layout is extended, I've tried modifying:
android:layout_gravity="top">
and other layout attributes such as weight, margin, height/width.. This always hits the same problem.
My XML for this view is:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="483dp"
android:layout_weight="1.06"
android:layout_gravity="top">
</FrameLayout>
<EditText android:id="#+id/edit_message"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:hint="#string/edit_message"
android:layout_gravity="bottom" />
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/button_send"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:onClick="SendMessageButton"
/>
</LinearLayout>
Though, i'm some-what stuck on how to make the correct changes & any response to this question would be greatly appreciated!

At the moment, all your child views live inside a single horizontally-oriented LinearLayout. LinearLayouts always arrange views sequentially, as you are experiencing.
There are a couple different ways to achieve the layout you are looking for. I'm going to suggest one that uses nested LinearLayouts (an outer one to stack things vertically, and then a nested one to arrange the EditText and Button horizontally), but you could also consider using a RelativeLayout for this.
Updated layout:
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<EditText
android:id="#+id/edit_message"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:hint="#string/edit_message" />
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/button_send"
android:onClick="SendMessageButton" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Note that a LinearLayout is oriented horizontally by default; I have explicitly included the attribute here to make the structure more clear.

The reason, your button and editText is appearing far from the frame layout and not near the corner is the parent layout orientation is Horizontal.
Change it to Vertical.
Now, if you need your button and editText to be arranged in the same line, it should be mentioned as described in samgak answer.
However, i would like to suggest the following.
Using framelayout might create bad user experience across different screen sizes in android.
If the parent layout in Linear, if the screen size is x and all your components added if the height it takes is x-20, then the theme you set for parent layout would not cover the entire screen. Therefore, it is recommended to use RelativeLayout and for the button and editText, use the layout_alignParentBottom = true attribute.
If needed, i can share the code sample for this. Added Vertical Scroll to the layout.
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="483dp"
android:layout_gravity="top">
</FrameLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<EditText android:id="#+id/edit_message"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Edit Message"
android:layout_gravity="bottom" />
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Send"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:onClick="SendMessageButton"
/>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

Android: Layout height in percentage of screen resolution

I'm quite new in Android, so it'll probably be a stupid question, but here it goes.
I have a RelativeLayout of Activity. In this layout I have another Layout at bottom of a screen. Sometimes I hide it or make it visible, this matters not. Is it possible to make the another layout's height lets say 27% of total screen height? The idea is to keep the other content, except this layout on screen.
Have anyone tried something like this?

LinearLayout can handle this via android:layout_weight. For example, here is a layout containing three Button widgets, taking up 50%, 30%, and 20% of the height, respectively:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<Button
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dip"
android:layout_weight="50"
android:text="#string/fifty_percent"/>
<Button
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dip"
android:layout_weight="30"
android:text="#string/thirty_percent"/>
<Button
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dip"
android:layout_weight="20"
android:text="#string/twenty_percent"/>
</LinearLayout>
However, you cannot simply declare that an arbitrary widget at an arbitrary point in your layout file should take up an arbitrary percentage of the screen size. You are welcome to perform that calculation in Java and adjust your widget's LayoutParams as necessary, though.

you can try this, is more complexe but useful.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/parent_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/app_name" />
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/parent_of_bottom_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/content_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="27">
//Add your content here
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Equal button height for RelativeLayout (while still filling up all space)

I have an Android application that goes about like this:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/toplayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="0.90" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button_1_of_10"
android:layout_width="70dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:text="#string/text_0x1701" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button_2_of_10"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignRight="#+id/button_1_of_10"
android:layout_below="#+id/button_1_of_10"/>
<!--Another 8 buttons-->
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/contentpane"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/button_1_of_10" >
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/actionbuttonslayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="0.10">
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
I need the 10 buttons to fill up the entire height from the top to the footer (the 0.1 weighted RelativeLayout), while all the buttons keep an equal height. However, I want to know whether there is a kind of equivalent to the layout_weight from LinearLayout, but for RelativeLayouts, as it's not performant to have nested weights in LinearLayouts. I'm not really looking for other solutions, because I still have some thing to try, but I want to know whether or not this is possible?
My question, just to be clear, is: Is it possible to have an amount of Buttons with an equal height in a RelativeLayout and at the same time fill up all the available space?

To use weight you need to use a LinearLayout, just make a linear layout with the buttons take the space you want and then on each button inside have android:layout_height="0dp" and also a android:layout_weight="1"
You don't need to sum all the weights to 1, just think of items with the same weight have the same size

Adding view to bottom of layout inside a scrollview

So my layout looks basically like this:
<ScrollView>
<RelativeLayout>
<BunchOfViews/>
<ImageView android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>
I have the ScrollView so all of the layout always is visible no matter the height of the screen. The problem is that on a very high screen, I still want my ImageView to be at the bottom. However, a child of a ScrollView don't seem to have a defined bottom. The View is placed at the top of the layout. How can I solve this problem in a neat way?

I ran into the same issue. I never could find a very pleasing solution, but here is how I did it. Maybe someone else has a better way, I hate adding layouts that don't do anything.
My hack was to add a dummy linearlayout at the bottom of the scrollview that has fill_parent to take up all the room and force the scrollview to fill the screen. Then add whatever component I want to that linearlayout.
Here is one of my layouts that does this:
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:fillViewport="true" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_marginTop="15px" >
<!-- bunch of components here -->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_below="#+id/spinner"
android:layout_marginTop="5px"
android:gravity="center_horizontal|bottom"
android:paddingTop="2px" >
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingLeft="20px"
android:paddingRight="20px"
android:text="Delete" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>

I had the same issue and found this page:
http://www.curious-creature.org/2010/08/15/scrollviews-handy-trick/
Basically, you set the ScrollView's android:fillViewport to true, which will allow the child view to expand to the same height as the ScrollView itself, filling out the space. You then just need to have one of the child controls' layout_height set to fill_parent and layout_weight to 1, causing that control to "spring" to fill the empty space.
Note that if the contents of the ScrollView are already tall enough to fill the ScrollView, the android:fillViewport has no effect, so the setting only kicks in when needed.
My final XML looks like similar to this:
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:fillViewport="true">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1">
<!-- this expands to fill the empty space if needed -->
</LinearLayout>
<!-- this sits at the bottom of the ScrollView,
getting pushed out of view if the ScrollView's
content is tall enough -->
<ImageView
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/footer_image">
</ImageView>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

it seems that the linearlayout isn't necessary, all that is important is the fillViewPort.
you could just use
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottomParent="true">
now that you have specified the relativelayout to be at least the size of the screen.

its work for me perfectly android:fillViewport="true"

Joel Malone's answer Adding view to bottom of layout inside a scrollview does that trick. My solution is almost the same, except that I use Space widget to do the work of filling the rest height inside the parent layout. Like this:
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true"
>
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>
<android.support.v4.widget.Space
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
/>
<ImageView
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/footer_image"
/>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
Attention:
fill_parent in the other answers is noted as deprecated for a long time;
Compare to an empty LinearLayout to fill the rest of parent layout, I think Space is much more appropriate(it's designed to do that job.)
Finally, don't forget that important attribute at the beginning of ScrollView: android:fillViewport="true". They together make this trick.

just put this attribute android:fillViewport="true" to your ScrolView
and you will got what you need

On your view that you want to be at the bottom use android:gravity="bottom"

From: http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/source/browse/k9mail/trunk/res/layout/account_setup_basics.xml?r=1314
This should help you:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_marginTop="-45dip"
android:padding="0dip"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:gravity="bottom|right"
android:background="#android:drawable/bottom_bar"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent">
<Button
android:id="#+id/manual_setup"
android:text="#string/account_setup_basics_manual_setup_action"
android:minWidth="#dimen/button_minWidth"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="-4dip"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="false"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/next"
android:text="#string/next_action"
android:minWidth="#dimen/button_minWidth"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:drawableRight="#drawable/button_indicator_next"
android:layout_marginBottom="-4dip"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="false"
/>
</RelativeLayout>

ScrollView view = new ScrollView( this );
ScrollView.LayoutParams lps = new FrameLayout.LayoutParams( FILL_PARENT, FILL_PARENT, Gravity.CENTER );
LinearLayout layout = new LinearLayout( this );
// what ever you want in the Layout
view.addView( layout, lps );

I tried alot to align the Scroll View to bottom of the screen but thats not possible according to this link.
https://newbedev.com/how-do-i-align-views-at-the-bottom-of-the-screen
The way i found was to create a view with 1dp height and aa id (lets say android:id="#+id/bottomView") at the bottom of your XML page.
now just add these attributes to your scroll view..
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:scrollbars="vertical"
android:fillViewport="true"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/bottomView"
>

Here is how you can use a ConstraintLayout to align the image view at the bottom:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true">
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
android:id="#+id/content_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text_view"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Text 1"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#+id/space_view"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="parent" />
<Space
android:id="#+id/space_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="#+id/image_view"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/text_view" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/image_view"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="..."
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/space_view" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
</ScrollView>