Making the Button's align_parentBottom = "true" when other view's height is not Zero

Question

First the title may look senseless but I don't know how I describe my problem well in the title.

I have a Relative layout which has 2 buttons (Past games and Upcoming Games) and 2 listviews. Whenever a button is pressed the associated listview is collapsed (height will be zero) if it is already expanded or the reverse will happen. ( i used this solution)

Problem: Everything is fine when I run it on a 5-inch screen phone. Please see the following picture:

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But if I run it on a 10-inch tablet it looks like this:

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The same will happen when it will run on less than 5-inch phone.

My questions

Do I need to make another layout for the tablet? like in the layout-large folder?
or I can use some event(s) in Jave file that dynamically set the buttons align parent bottom property when the listview is not collapsed.
or it can be fixed in my current XML

Below is the code for that part I am asking for help

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnPastGames"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="30dp"
            android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
            android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
            android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
            android:background="@color/YellowColor"
            android:text="Past Games"
            android:textAllCaps="false"
            android:textSize="15sp" />

        <ListView
            android:id="@+id/lvPastGames"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="255dp"
            android:layout_below="@+id/btnPastGames"
            android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
            android:layout_marginLeft="17dp"
            android:layout_marginStart="17dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
            android:divider="@null" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnUpcommigGames"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="30dp"
            android:layout_below="@+id/lvPastGames"
            android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
            android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
            android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
            android:background="@color/YellowColor"
            android:text="Up Coming Games"
            android:textAllCaps="false"
            android:textSize="15sp" />

        <ListView
            android:id="@+id/lvUpcomingGames"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="255dp"
            android:layout_below="@+id/btnUpcommigGames"
            android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
            android:layout_marginLeft="17dp"
            android:layout_marginStart="17dp"
            android:divider="@null" />

    </RelativeLayout>

</LinearLayout>

If you guys can give me some advice on making the user interface that will run on all screen sizes and densities I will be very thankful

Thanks to anyone who will help me

You want the *btnUpcommigGames* Button to be always at the bottom of the screen? — Rami, Oct 12 '15 at 17:17
No, the button btnUpcommingGames should be below the btnPastGames when the lvPastGames is collapsed otherwise it should stay at bottom. — Hashoo, Oct 12 '15 at 17:33

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '15 at 17:53

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You are trying to workaround functionality of ExpandableListView. Look at the following page:

http://www.androidhive.info/2013/07/android-expandable-list-view-tutorial/

answered Oct 12 '15 at 17:53

Iliiaz Akhmedov

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Making the Button's align_parentBottom = "true" when other view's height is not Zero

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