Ok I understand now, Thanks a lot.
On Oct 2, 4:27 pm, "Romain Guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > layout_gravity=bottom works only in horizontal LinearLayouts. In your > case, you should use a RelativeLayout. Then, on your TextView, use > android:layout_alignParentTop="true" and on the Button, use > android:layout_alignParentBottom="true". > > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Cadge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ok I tired as you suggested replacing the line > > > ----------------------------------- > > android:gravity="bottom" > > ----------------------------------- > > > with > > > ----------------------------------- > > android:layout_gravity="bottom" > > ----------------------------------- > > > with the rest of the code staying as it was. But it still hasn't > > changed anything and the button still apears at the top. > > > Any ideas? > > > Cheers. > > > On Oct 2, 1:46 pm, Mark Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Cadge wrote: > >> > I have a (extremely) simple app that shows some text and a button > >> > which does nothing just now. As it stands the text appears with button > >> > imediately below this. > > >> > What I want to do is keep the text at the top but move the button to > >> > the bottom of the screen. > > >> <snip> > > >> > As you can see I have the following line in the Button tag > > >> > ----------------------------------- > >> > android:gravity="bottom" > >> > ------------------------------------ > > >> > I thought this would move the button to the bottom but it still > >> > appears at the top of the screen under the text. > > >> You probably want android:layout_gravity="bottom". It's documented in > >> LinearLayout.LayoutParams in the SDK docs. > > >> -- > >> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)http://commonsware.com > > >> Android Training on the Ranch! -- Mar 16-20, > >> 2009http://www.bignerdranch.com/schedule.shtml > > -- > Romain Guywww.curious-creature.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---