Linear Layout and children not visible - android-layout

Hi sorry I am having difficulty in getting my layout to been seen when I run the application
I don't see anything when I run my application
here is my XML code
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="409dp"
android:layout_height="729dp"
android:layout_marginStart="1dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="1dp"
android:layout_marginTop="1dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="1dp"
android:layout_marginRight="1dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="1dp"
android:orientation="vertical"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/edtName"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="44dp"
android:text="Name" />
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrlText"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true"
android:isScrollContainer="true"
android:layout_height="638dp">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/lltext"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" />
</ScrollView>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/hllsend"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<EditText
android:id="#+id/edtInput"
android:layout_width="159dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:ems="10"
android:inputType="textPersonName" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnSend"
android:layout_width="10dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Button" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
How do I make my items visible when running the application?


In your simple layout code, there are many problems. For example:
1.
android:layout_width="409dp"
android:layout_height="729dp"
such android screen size is hard to get. And in Android layout principal, you'd better use relative layout rather than such hard code size. Here you can replace it with match_parent or wrap_content.
In the same way.
android:layout_height="638dp"
totally over screen height ,make no space for hllsend to show.
I suggest you learn some android layout principal before write android app.


It's not a good practice to add LinearLayout in ConstraintLayout and I think it's the issue with your code you just need to make you LinearLayout as a parent and remove your ConstraintLayout.
NOTE: please do necessary adjustment.
Please check quick example for your code I didn't run this.
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="409dp"
android:layout_height="729dp"
android:layout_marginStart="1dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="1dp"
android:layout_marginTop="1dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="1dp"
android:layout_marginRight="1dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="1dp"
android:orientation="vertical"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/edtName"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="44dp"
android:text="Name" />
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrlText"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true"
android:isScrollContainer="true"
android:layout_height="638dp">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/lltext"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" />
</ScrollView>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/hllsend"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<EditText
android:id="#+id/edtInput"
android:layout_width="159dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:ems="10"
android:inputType="textPersonName" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnSend"
android:layout_width="10dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Button" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>


put all your xml codes in LinearLayout and remove ConstraintLayout . thats may helps.

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This is silly. I knew the solution by myself right after posting the problem. :)
Just needed to add android:paddingBottom attribute to the RecyclerView.
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android:id="#+id/studentListView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
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I am very new to android designing and have some basic problems setting up a
simple layout:
Here are my goals:
I would like to have two buttons at the end of the Screen, each having the same size, filling the width of the screen.
A second LinearLayout should fill the rest of the screen, but all its content should be vertically centred.
I tried my best, but sometimes my bottom LinearLayout completely disappears, sometimes the bottom one looks fine, but the other layouts content isn't centred. I just don't know what to try out anymore. Here is what I got so far:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center">
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android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
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<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
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android:hint="#string/TableDescriptionHint" />
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android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:hint="#string/TablePasswordHint"
android:id="#+id/TablePassword"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif" />
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android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom">
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android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/BtnAddTable" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/BtnCancelAddTable"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/BtnCancelAddTable"
/>
</LinearLayout>
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I tried my best, but sometimes my bottom LinearLayout completely disappears, sometimes the bottom one looks fine, but the other layouts content isn't centred.
Your button is sometimes disappearing because your top sub Linearlayout's height is match_parent, which makes it fill the parent's height and cover the below views.
What you need is a layout structure like below:
Description:
So like the description in the picture, you can set weightsum to your parent layout and set the weight percentage to your sub layout. And wrap your button's Linearlayout using Relativelayout, so that you can get the buttons centered.
Codes:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:weightSum="4">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_gravity="center">
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:id="#+id/editTableName"
android:hint="#string/TableNameHint" />
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:id="#+id/editTableDescripion"
android:hint="#string/TableDescriptionHint" />
<EditText
android:inputType="textPassword"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:hint="#string/TablePasswordHint"
android:id="#+id/TablePassword"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif" />
</LinearLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="3">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_gravity="bottom">
<Button
android:id="#+id/BtnAddTable"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/BtnAddTable" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/BtnCancelAddTable"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/BtnCancelAddTable" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Update:
RelativeLayout has restrictions, it can only contain one child. So if you want to add more widgets in the bottom region then the best option for you is to use ConstraintLayout.
For Xamarin, you can follow the below steps:
Open Android SDK Manager in your VS:
Tools->Other->Check below versions of Constraintlayout and solver for Android like below and apply changes:
Install Xamrin.Android.Support.Constraint.Layout to your project through nuget package:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
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">
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editText"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Name" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editText2"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Name"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/editText" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editText3"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/editText2" />
<android.support.constraint.Guideline
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/guideline"
app:layout_constraintGuide_percent="0.6"
android:orientation="horizontal"/>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="#id/guideline"
android:orientation="horizontal">
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android:id="#+id/button"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Button"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/button2"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Button"/>
</LinearLayout>
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>
Short Explaination:
use android.support.constraint.Guideline with app:layout_constraintGuide_percent="0.6" to draw an invisible line to help position the buttons.(guideline will be 60% from the top screen). Then let buttons' stacklayout to be bottom of the guideline.
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Well, what you are trying to do is more achievable by just adding a Relative layout to the mix:
What you have to do is this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="6"
android:layout_gravity="center">
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:id="#+id/editTableName"
android:hint="#string/TableNameHint" />
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:id="#+id/editTableDescripion"
android:hint="#string/TableDescriptionHint" />
<EditText
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android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:hint="#string/TablePasswordHint"
android:id="#+id/TablePassword"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif" />
</LinearLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>
<Button
android:id="#+id/BtnAddTable"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/BtnAddTable" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/BtnCancelAddTable"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/BtnCancelAddTable"
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</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
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The Official Android developer website says :
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</EditText>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="40"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="30"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<AnalogClock
android:id="#+id/analogClock1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Welcome to StackOverflow!
Couple of things,
TheNewBoston made a mistake. Whenever you use weights you need
to set the height (or width) of that element to 0dp. I've changed
that in your code.
You shouldn't rely on the xml tool that eclipse has, you should always try to launch your app to some type of a device (emulator or preferably hardware)
I think by ScrollBar, you mean ScrollView? Because you're not doing anything to control the appearance of the scroll bar right now.
The parent of your layout (in this case) should match_parent, not wrap. (this is your main issue)
Also, you don't really need weightSum, android will just sum all the weights anyway.
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="30" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextView" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editText1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ems="10" >
</EditText>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="40"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="30"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<AnalogClock
android:id="#+id/analogClock1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</LinearLayout>

You need to set the height of the views to 0dp if you are using weight. match_parent is causing problems. Also set the height of root view to match_parent. Try this, if I add many EditText's to the LinearLayout in the ScrollView it seems to give the effect you are after:
<?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:orientation="vertical"
android:weightSum="100">
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="40">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextView"/>
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editText1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ems="10">
</EditText>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="30"
android:orientation="vertical">
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button"/>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="30"
android:orientation="vertical">
<AnalogClock
android:id="#+id/analogClock1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

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