Depending on what you want to do, with the space in the middle, you could create a view that acts as an empty space holder and set its layout_height attribute to fill_parent.
One simple way of doing this would be to use a TextView that only displays an empty string.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:59 PM, tatman <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have two elements: I want the text at the top of the screen and the > button at the bottom with space between the two controls. How can I > get the button to appear at the bottom of the screen? > > <?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" > android:background="@drawable/blankscreen" > > > <TextView > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="wrap_content" > android:text="@string/hello" > /> > > <Button > android:layout_width="fill_parent" > android:layout_height="wrap_content" > android:gravity="bottom" > android:text="@string/btn_start_game" > /> > > </LinearLayout> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

