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Why is the second identical ImageView inside LinearLayout smaller?

I have two ImageViews with the same image source inside LinearLayout, but why the second image is smaller than the first?
This is the source code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="center_vertical">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/background_landscape" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/background_landscape" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
The error can be reproduced clearly on 800x1280 pixel resolution.
How can make both images have the same size with the second image cropped on the right side of the screen. (NOT SCALED DOWN)

... why the second image is smaller than the first?
Because the first image gets its real width due to wrap_content value of layout_width attribute. And the second image receives the rest width (width of layout minus width of first image) from LinearLayout, which is obviously smaller, than the real width of the image. That's why it gets scaled down.
How can make both images have the same size with the second image
cropped on the right side of the screen. (NOT SCALED DOWN)
You might use ScrollView, which allows children to go out of parent's boundaries.
Update: as mentioned by CommonsWare:
<HorizontalScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:scrollbars="false"
>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="center_vertical">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/background_landscape" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/background_landscape" />
</LinearLayout>
</HorizontalScrollView>

Like beworker said the first image is getting its width due to the wrap_content and the second image gets the remaining available horizontal space.
Use android:layout_weight="1" in both ImageViews if you want them each to ocuppy half the available screen width

Android - ImageView as header

I want to display an image on top of my activity that always fill the screens width. If I set its width to match parent and its height to wrap content there is a white stripe at the sides of the image on larger screen. How can I make that this image always fill the screen horizontally?
My xml:
<RelativeLayout 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"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:contentDescription="#string/hello_world"
android:src="#drawable/tbbt" />
</RelativeLayout>
Thanks in advance.

change imageview to fit the complete screen width
android:scaleType="fitXY"
or
android:scaleType="centerCrop"

Putting ImageView on the bottom of the screen

I am trying to put the ImageView on the bottom of the layout with following XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#EEEEEE"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:src="#drawable/photo" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
I am following the instructions found here http://sandipchitale.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/linearlayout-gravity-and-layoutgravity.html
Only difference is that I use ImageView instead of Button as here:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/Button03"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:text="bottom" >
</Button>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Which puts the button on the expected place:
Unfortunately this isn't the case in my XML on the top of the post. The ImageView isn't placed on the bottom as the Button in reference XML is.
Any ideas why that happens ?

You should change a setting in ImageView itself, to be precise set android:scaleType="fitEnd" on your ImageView.
The other answers seem to be workarounds, including your own answer. This is not a problem with a layout, but with where inside the ImageView the image is loaded when the dimensions of the image and the screen aren't similar, (i.e. the width/height ratio is very different). By default it would load the image in the middle of the ImageView.

Try using RelativeLayout instead of LinearLayout and use parameter android:layout_alignParentBottom = "true".
EDIT: Try giving layout_height and layout_width as wrap_content for your LinearLayout that holds your ImageView.
Or it might be that the image you are using has extra space above and below it.
UPDATE:
The problem is with the size of the image. It is much larger than the screen size. I would suggest you to programmatically read the screen size of the device with below code:
DisplayMetrics displaymetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(displaymetrics);
int height = displaymetrics.heightPixels;
int width = displaymetrics.widthPixels;
and set the height and width for imageView programmatically as below:
image_view.getLayoutParams().height = height - 50;
image_view.getLayoutParams().width = width - 50;

Try this inside relative layout
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView9"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
android:adjustViewBounds="?attr/isLightTheme"
app:srcCompat="#drawable/client_app_footer" />
tested & working as expected

you did not include android:layout_gravity="bottom" line in your imageview.

I have resized photo size from width 2560 to width 270 and finally ImageView went to bottom.

Does LinearLayout have a max height?

I have a vertical linearlayout that won't stretch beyond a certain limit.
This is the layout with centerCrop in the imageview
http://tinypic.com/r/20nm6s/5
This is the layout with no crop set (so it should be full width and huge)
http://tinypic.com/r/vzk7kw/5
So my thought is that there is some implicit max height that I'm not seeing in my layout but I can't see where it is, can you spot my error?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:background="#drawable/dropshadow"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/heading"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
/>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/featuredimage"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:maxHeight="1000dp"
android:scaleType="centerCrop"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
/>
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

The "implicit" max height of the layout is the height of its parent. Since you're using wrap_content on both layouts, that means the parent is effectively the screen area, minus whatever other views you're using (such as the TextView). Unless you place it in a scrolling container, such as a ScrollView, it won't ever exceed the size of the screen.
The reason your ImageView isn't showing up "full width and huge" when you remove the crop is because the default scaleType for an ImageView is fitCenter. This particular view is bounded by the layout's width, so it shrinks the image while maintaining aspect ratio.

Actual view's height is not fitted to proper content

I have an ImageView, it shows an image from resource.
ImageView's widht is fixed (60dp). Height is set as wrap_content.
The image is resized to fit to this width (saving aspect ration - this is perfect)
The problem is that android sets actual height to the image's heights before resizing. But I want this image to have exactly 60dp in width and height should be equal to image's height after resizing.
Here is layout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="60dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/sample"
android:background="#F0F0"/>
</LinearLayout>

try android:adjustViewBounds="true"

The solution is quite simple, I just added atribute android:adjustViewBounds="true" for ImageView tag.

There are two solutions
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="60dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/thumb"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"/>
</LinearLayout>