How do I set the width of a child views to be divided amongst eachother?

Question

I'm trying to create a LinearLayout with the left view width being 80% of its parents width and the second view taking up the remaining space. How do I accomplish this?

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Take a look here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4961355/percentage-width-in-a-relativelayout It's about the same problem — thomas-hiron, Jan 19 '13 at 15:21

yarakyo · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-19T15:34:33.807

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Trying using android:layout_weight when defining your child Views.

For view 1 use a layout weight of 0.8 and view 2 use a layout weight of 0.2

Example xml would be :

android:layout_weight=".8"

edited Jan 19 '13 at 15:34

answered Jan 19 '13 at 15:19

yarakyo

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 19 '13 at 15:53

Like this:

Don't forget to set the width to 0.

<TextView
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_weight=".8"
    android:background="@color/blue" />

<TextView
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_weight=".2"
    android:background="@color/red" />

How do I set the width of a child views to be divided amongst eachother?

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