Forgot to paste the closing RelativeLayout tag.  Just add this to the end 
of the XML:

</RelativeLayout>


On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:28:53 AM UTC-7, rdietrick wrote:
>
> I don't make this stuff up.  Try this one on for size:
>
> Take out the android:layout_alignParentRight="true" attribute from the 
> "child" view and you'll see that the parent_layout reverts back to it's 
> min_width of 280dp.  But with that attribute set to true the parent_layout 
> expands horizontally to fill its parent.  
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android";
>     android:id="@+id/root_container"
>     android:layout_width="fill_parent"
>     android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>     android:layout_gravity="center"
>     android:background="#FFFFFF"
>     android:gravity="center_horizontal" >
>
>     <RelativeLayout
>         android:id="@+id/parent_layout"
>         android:layout_width="wrap_content"
>         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>         android:minWidth="280dp"
>         android:minHeight="200dp"
>         android:layout_centerInParent="true"
>         android:background="#FFFFFF" 
>         android:padding="0dp">
>
>         <TextView
>             android:id="@+id/title"
>             android:layout_width="280dp"
>             android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>             android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
>             android:gravity="center"
>             android:background="#666666"
>             android:text="Title"
>             android:textSize="23sp"
>             android:textStyle="bold" />
>
>             <TextView
>                 android:id="@+id/child"
>                 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
>                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>                 android:layout_below="@+id/title"
>                 android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
>                 android:layout_marginTop="40dp"
>                 android:text="PROBLEM ELEMENT"
>                 android:textSize="18sp"
>                 android:textStyle="bold" 
>                 android:background="#666666"
>                 android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
>                 />
>
>     </RelativeLayout>
>
> On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 11:24:46 PM UTC-7, Zsolt Vasvari wrote:
>>
>> I have never noticed this and I have many-many Relative layouts.
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 10:21:59 AM UTC+8, rdietrick wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a RelativeLayout that encapsulates several other views.  I have 
>>> the layout_width of the parent (RelativeLayout) set to "wrap_content."  If 
>>> I set the layout_alignParentRight attribute of one of the child views to 
>>> "true," it expands the parent layout horizontally to fill the screen.  Is 
>>> there a way around this?  I believe setting layout_alignParentBottom="true" 
>>> does the same thing vertically, while left and top don't.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> -rob
>>>
>>

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