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TextView is getting cut off in a LinearLayout

I am trying to add two different textviews with different heights like so:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="#dimen/single_margin"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/double_margin"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/double_margin"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/single_margin"
android:baselineAligned="false"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/newsfeed_ad_title"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginRight="28dp"
android:layout_weight="3"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:singleLine="false"
android:text="This is example text view that will mess up the height!"
android:textColor="#color/dark_blue"
android:textSize="#dimen/ad_title_text" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/newsfeed_ad_info_button"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:background="#drawable/selector_rounded_box_light_blue"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
android:gravity="center"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/single_margin"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/double_margin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/double_margin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/single_margin"
android:text="Learn More"
android:textColor="#color/dark_blue"
android:textSize="#dimen/body_text" /> </LinearLayout>
And the result is this:
(Don't mind the drop shadow above. I cropped the image and the shadow is from the actionbar)
The height of the linear layout is determined by the smaller textview instead of the bigger one. Why? And how do I go about fixing it? Thanks in advance

Make textview's height wrap_content it will solve the issue
android:id="#+id/newsfeed_ad_title"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"

try this,
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginBottom="#dimen/single_margin"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/double_margin"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/double_margin"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/single_margin"
android:baselineAligned="false"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/newsfeed_ad_title"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginRight="28dp"
android:layout_weight="3"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:singleLine="false"
android:text="This is example text view that will mess up the height!"
android:textColor="#color/dark_blue"
android:textSize="#dimen/ad_title_text" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/newsfeed_ad_info_button"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:background="#drawable/selector_rounded_box_light_blue"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
android:gravity="center"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/single_margin"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/double_margin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/double_margin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/single_margin"
android:text="Learn More"
android:textColor="#color/dark_blue"
android:textSize="#dimen/body_text" />
</LinearLayout>
If this does not solve your problem then give your dimen.xml file.
Hope this will be helpful...thanks

You want to make the left textview (with ID newsfeed_ad_title) not cut right? Change the android:layout_height to "wrap_content"

Try to set match_parent newsfeed_ad_info_button TextView :
<TextView
android:id="#+id/newsfeed_ad_info_button"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:background="#drawable/selector_rounded_box_light_blue"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
android:gravity="center"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/single_margin"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/double_margin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/double_margin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/single_margin"
android:text="Learn More"
android:textColor="#color/dark_blue"
android:textSize="#dimen/body_text" />
Note : Also use dp instead px :
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html

The problem is that the first TextView (the one with ID newsfeed_ad_title) has an height of match_parent. This means that first the LinearLayout will compute its preferred height, and then the TextView will occupy exactly that height.
Giving a wrap_content to the first TextView will solve the issue, because this way the LinearLayout will first ask both children to compute their desired height,and then set his own accordingly.
<TextView
android:id="#+id/newsfeed_ad_title"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
... //the rest is unmodified

Doesn't wrap_content adjust to the size of fonts?

My understanding was that the wrap_content take as much space as needed by its contents. But doesn’t this apply to TextViews as well?
In the following layout why when I change the font of TextView with id real_status to 24 the text is partially hidden? I was expecting that due to the wrap content the enclosing TextView it would wrap around the 24 sp and display the text fine. It is fine with 18sp.
Layout:
<?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:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/real_status"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/full_display_name"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/full_display_name"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:textSize="24sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
tools:text="Active"
/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/full_display_name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/real_status"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:text="The real user status:"
android:textSize="16sp"
/>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/full_display_name"
android:gravity="right"
>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:visibility="gone"
tools:text="Just a text view"
tools:visibility="visible" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
With 18sp:
With 24sp:
UPDATE:
Following the answers I removed the layout top/bottom and the font adjusted but now I see that the TextView overlaps with the next widget. Adding red background is more visible.
I thought that by “growning” the TextView the rest would move down and not overlap

whenever You suffering from this type of problem You can LiniarLayout is best if You understand it very well. because of wrap_content and match_parent is simple to handle in LiniarLayout.
lets understand it.(For Your case)..
1.take two LiniarLayout(parent have verticle orientation..)
i give Id LL1(horizontal) and id LL2 for your case
2.in first layout two textview #+id/full_display_name and #+id/real_status
in real_status have match_parent in width so it easy to divide parent(fill_parent) and set its android:gravity="right"
3.LiniarLayout as it is without relate
See belove XML code...
<?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" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/LL1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/full_display_name"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="The real user status:"
android:textSize="16sp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/real_status"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="right"
android:text="Active"
android:textSize="26sp" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/LL2"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/real_status"
android:gravity="right" >
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:text="Just a text view" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
It will help you Your GUI give bestView in All devices with any size of text
Hope it help You

Remove these two line will fix your problem
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/full_display_name"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/full_display_name"

Yes the wrap_content will take as much space needed by the view. It will also applied to the TextView also. The problem here is you written android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/full_display_name" to real_status text view. This attribute is overriding the wrap_content So remove allignBottom attribute from the text view.
UPDATE
For your bottom linear layout update the line
android:layout_below="#+id/full_display_name"
with
android:layout_below="#+id/real_status"

How to center a TextView on the parent ImageView?

I've tried several ways of doing this and failed each time.
What I want to acomplish is centering TextView (horizontally and vertically) on ImageView, but instead command android:layout_centerInParent="true" results in vertical and horizontal centering on the whole area, not on ImageView. Please help me with attaching parent to TextView or other way of solving this.
Here is my xml code:
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="170dp"
android:layout_height="46dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:contentDescription="Your Height BG"
android:src="#drawable/textareabg" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView00"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="Your Height"
android:textColor="#d88b6d"
android:textSize="20sp" />

It can be easily acheived using ConstraintLayout. Android recently introduced ConstraintLayout. It allows us to lay out child views using ‘constraints’ to define position based relationships between different views found in our layout. It is similar to RelativeLayout, but much more powerful than it because, ConstraintLayout reduces View Hierarchy to a greater extent. Now getting back to your question, Here is the sample xml code which does the work for you
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/image"
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:src="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.1"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Image"
android:textSize="20sp"
app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="#+id/image"
app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="#+id/image"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="#+id/image"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="#+id/image"/>
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>
Output View on Device
You can position the TextView anywhere on the ImageView using app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias and app:layout_constraintVertical_bias. By default these values will be set to 0.5. So, it will be center aligned by default , if we don't specify any values.
When you add a constraint to both sides of a view (and the view size
for the same dimension is either "fixed" or "wrap content"), the view
becomes centered between the two anchor points by default.
Note: Bias attribute only works if you specify the constraints for the boundaries (e.g. top and bottom for vertical bias, left and right for horizontal bias)
More about ConstraintLayout
ConstraintLayout
Sample Project
Blog on ConstraintLayout

Try this way,hope this will help you to solve your problem.
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="170dp"
android:layout_height="46dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:contentDescription="Your Height BG"
android:src="#drawable/textareabg" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView00"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:text="Your Height"
android:textColor="#d88b6d"
android:textSize="20sp" />
</FrameLayout>

Perhaps this would help you with your question
Android TextView text won't center
A person here mentions using android:gravity="center".

Here's what I would do
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="170dp"
android:layout_height="46dp"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="false"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:contentDescription="Your Height BG" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView00"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="30dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:text="Your Height"
android:textColor="#d88b6d"
android:textSize="20sp" />

What you need to do is use FrameLayout.The doc says:
FrameLayout is designed to block out an area on the screen to display a single item. Generally, FrameLayout should be used to hold a single child view, because it can be difficult to organize child views in a way that's scalable to different screen sizes without the children overlapping each other. You can, however, add multiple children to a FrameLayout and control their position within the FrameLayout by assigning gravity to each child, using the android:layout_gravity attribute.
Child views are drawn in a stack, with the most recently added child on top. The size of the FrameLayout is the size of its largest child (plus padding), visible or not (if the FrameLayout's parent permits). Views that are GONE are used for sizing only if setConsiderGoneChildrenWhenMeasuring() is set to true.
So you need something like following psuedo layout code:
<FrameLayout>
<ImageView gravity="center">
<TextView gravity="center">
</FrameLayout>

Add one more relative layout under your layout like this :
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:id="#+id/imageView"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:text="Large Text"
android:id="#+id/textView"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
Check for width and height you want. Eg. If you want specific height and width for image, change height and width of this relative layout.
Thats it...

How to get this message bubble to be on the right side?

I have this as my layout for an item in my listview:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/msgbox_self_default" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:paddingLeft="7dip" >
<ImageView android:id="#+id/pending" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_marginLeft="2dip"
android:src="#drawable/ic_sms_mms_pending"
android:visibility="gone"
/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/body"
android:text="#+id/body"
android:singleLine="false"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/message_item_text_padding_left_right"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/message_item_text_padding_left_right"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/message_item_text_padding_top"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:linksClickable="false"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
android:textColor="#ff000000"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true" />
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/body"
android:id="#+id/picture_layout"
android:orientation="vertical"
>
<ImageView android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="#+id/picture"
android:visibility="gone"
android:maxWidth="178dip" android:maxHeight="178dip"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:adjustViewBounds="true" android:background="#android:drawable/picture_frame"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>
<TextView
android:paddingRight="#dimen/message_item_text_padding_left_right"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/picture_layout"
android:paddingLeft="3dip"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
android:id="#+id/date"
android:text="#+id/date"
android:singleLine="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
I want the bubble though to be on the right side. This is a layout for a message bubble. I am trying to put it on the right side like the iPhone conversations. I have tried every possibly thing I can think of relating to putting it on the right side instead of the left. Does anyone see anything wrong with my layout? Please help! Thanks
** EDIT **
The green bubble is the one that I aiming for in this picture
http://getandroidstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/GO-SMS-Android.jpg
* CHANGED LAYOUT *
this is so far what I have.. anymore ideas?
I want the grey bubble to look like the white one except on the right side.

Im not going to sift through your code but basically you just want something like this for each message
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="put the right amount of padding in">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="make this your background, make sure to add padding in so that the text view is in the right place, look at 9 patches"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"/><!-- Or make this left -->
</RelativeLayout>
Don't over complicate things, just use a text view with a 9 patch and it will do what you want.
Just swap the 9 patch horizontally and it'll be around the other way

How to align Button to the right, without being overlapped by TextView?

I'm trying to get something like this: http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/552/layoutoy.png. I'm using this as a list item (technically as the group view of an ExpandableListView).
Here's the XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/list_item_text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ellipsize="end" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/list_item_button"
android:text="Click me!"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/list_item_text" />
</RelativeLayout>
But this doesn't work. The Button doesn't wrap its contents, instead it uses all available horizontal space. The TextView does wrap its contents, but what I want it to do is to cut off when it overlaps the Button.
In other words, I want all the buttons to be of the same width, regardless of the amount of text in the textviews. Is this at all possible?

I think you should try it the other way round.
Make the TextView be to the left of the button. This way the Textview won't overlap the Button. If you want it to be cut of at the end of the line you have to constrain it to one line. At the moment it would just move the rest of the text to the next line.
This should do the trick:
<Button
android:id="#+id/list_item_button"
android:text="Click me!"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/list_item_text"
android:text="veryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryveryverylong"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/list_item_button"
android:ellipsize="end" />
</RelativeLayout>

Before anyone tries the method shown above (with the RelativeLayout), you should use LinearLayout for this. The weights should be set correctly: the element that needs to take up the empty space has to have a weight of 1 and a width set to fill_parent, and the element that needs to keep its minimal size has to have a weight of 0 with a width of wrap_content.
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/list_item_text"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight=1
android:ellipsize="end" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/list_item_button"
android:text="Click me!"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight=0/>
</LinearLayout>