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

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 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 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:

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.