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Android Linear Layout with Examples

In android, LinearLayout is a ViewGroup subclass which is used to render all


child View instances one by one either in Horizontal direction or Vertical direction based on
the orientation property.

In android, we can specify the linear layout orientation using android:orientation attribute.

Following is the pictorial representation of linear layout in android applications.

In LinearLayout, the child View instances arranged one by one, so the horizontal list will have
only one row of multiple columns and vertical list will have one column of multiple rows.

Android LinearLayout Declaration


Following is the way we need to define the LinearLayout in android applications.

<?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" >
<!-- Add Child Views Here -->
</LinearLayout>

If we observe above code snippet, here we defined orientation as vertical, so this aligns all its
child layout / views vertically.

Android LinearLayout Example


Following is the example of creating a LinearLayout with different controls in android
application.

Create a new android application using android studio and give names as LinearLayout. In case
if you are not aware of creating an app in android studio check this article Android Hello World
App.

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Now open an activity_main.xml file from \res\layout path and write the code like as shown
below

activity_main.xml
<?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:paddingLeft="20dp"
android:paddingRight="20dp"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<EditText
android:id="@+id/txtTo"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="To"/>
<EditText
android:id="@+id/txtSub"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Subject"/>
<EditText
android:id="@+id/txtMsg"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:gravity="top"
android:hint="Message"/>
<Button
android:layout_width="100dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="right"
android:text="Send"/>
</LinearLayout>

Once we are done with creation of layout, we need to load the XML layout resource from
our activity onCreate() callback method, for that open main activity file MainActivity.java from \
java\com.sarker.linearlayout path and write the code like as shown below.

MainActivity.java
package com.sarker.com.linearlayout;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {


@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
}

If we observe above code we are calling our layout using setContentView method in the form
of R.layout.layout_file_name. Here our xml file name is activity_main.xml so we used file
name activity_main.

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Generally, during the launch of our activity, onCreate() callback method will be called by android
framework to get the required layout for an activity.

Output
When we run above example using android virtual device (AVD) we will get a result like as shown
below.

Layout Weight Attribute


If we observe above example we used layout weight attribute (android:layout_weight) in child
view. Actually, this attribute is used by child views to specify how much space the View should
occupy on the screen. If we assign larger weight value to child view, then it will expand to fill any
remaining space in the parent view.

If we observe above example, we used three text fields and we assigned weight value to only one
text field. The two text fields without weight will occupy only the area required for its content and
the other text field with weight value will expand to fill the remaining space after all three fields
measured.

This is how we can use LinearLayout in android applications to render all View instances one by
one either in Horizontal direction or Vertical direction based on the orientation property.

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