Android RelativeLayout with wrap_content too small to fit children - android-layout

Question

Here is a simple RelativeLayout with 4 controls arranged in a tabular format.
When displayed, the confirmpassword box is clipped at the bottom. It's as if "wrap_content" is not correctly calculating the height of the children. Any ideas?
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/passwordlabel"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_marginTop="34dp"
android:text="Password"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/password"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBaseline="#id/passwordlabel"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/confirmpassword"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/passwordlabel"
android:ems="10"
android:inputType="textPassword" >
<requestFocus />
</EditText>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/confirmpasslabel"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="#id/passwordlabel"
android:layout_below="#id/passwordlabel"
android:text="Confirm Password"
android:layout_marginTop="34dp"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/confirmpassword"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBaseline="#id/confirmpasslabel"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/confirmpasslabel"
android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
android:ems="10"
android:inputType="textPassword" />
</RelativeLayout>
This is what it looks like:
I have tried adding padding and/or margins to both of the bottom controls which has no effect (and strikes me as a hack anyway).
NB:- I had a similar problem before which a kindly soul solved essentially by splitting apart the RelativeLayout. I don't think that's possible here (it may be) but I'm concerned I'm either doing something completely wrong, or the RelativeLayout has a massive bug which seems under-documented.
Anyone able to shed light on this? TIA!

Answer 1

It does seem like a bit of a bug. I couldn't get it to work properly (without changing it somehow) with a RelativeLayout - something with the margins was throwing it off.
As a workaround, try a TableLayout:
<TableLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TableRow android:layout_marginTop="34dp">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/passwordlabel"
android:text="Password"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/password"
android:ems="10"
android:inputType="textPassword" >
<requestFocus />
</EditText>
</TableRow>
<TableRow android:layout_marginTop="34dp">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/confirmpasslabel"
android:text="Confirm Password"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/confirmpassword"
android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
android:ems="10"
android:inputType="textPassword" />
</TableRow>
</TableLayout>