match_parent property for children in a RelativeLayout

Question

In short, is it possible to tell a child in a

RelativeLayout

to always match the height of that RelativeLayout
regardless of how other children in that same RelativeLayout
behave? In short, that's it. Details below.

What I'm trying to achieve is a

ListView

row with at least three views, and one of those views would be kind of a stripe at the right side of the list entry (the red view below). The problem I'm having is that there is a

TextView

at the left side, and depeding on how much text I have, the stripe won't fill the whole layout. This is very clearly explained by images below.

ListView
item layout:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

            android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content">



<View

        android:id="@+id/bottom_line"

        android:layout_width="match_parent"

        android:layout_height="5dp"

        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"

        android:background="#fc0" />



<!-- Why match_parent does not work in view below? -->

<View

        android:id="@+id/stripe"

        android:layout_width="80dp"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:minHeight="50dp"

        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"

        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"

        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"

        android:background="#f00" />



<TextView

        android:id="@+id/text"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"

        android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/stripe"

        android:text="This is a very long line, meant to completely break the match_parent property of the box at right"

        style="?android:textAppearanceLarge"/>



</RelativeLayout>

Result:

RelativeLayout with child not filling the whole layout vertically

Setting stripe and root height to
`match_parent`
makes no difference. I did it.

Repeating the question, I want the red stripe to always fill the parent vertically. You can see stripe is not aligning to the top of root.

A note: the above example is the simplest, self-contained example I can think of. It's just a
ListActivity
with an anonymous
ArrayAdapter
populated by a static
String
array. The relevant code in
onCreate
is at most 8 lines, so no worries there. It's really the layout. Besides, I have this working with nested
LinearLayout
s already, but I'm trying to reduce the depth of my layout structure a bit, if possible.
LinearLayout
works fine, as expected.

Answer 1

I had same requirement and my solution was to align top of the red stripe to the parent's top, and bottom of the stripe to the bottom of the text view on the left. The height in this case becomes irrelevant. You can either use wrap_content or match_parent.

match_parent property for children in a RelativeLayout

Setting stripe and root height to match_parent makes no difference. I did it.

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Setting stripe and root height to
`match_parent`
makes no difference. I did it.