How do I prevent an EditText from resizing itself when the user is typing?

Question

I have an EditText and a Button set next to each other on the same horizontal line. It looks great, except when the user enters a lot of text, the

Answer 1

The correct way to do this would be to set the android:minWidth and android:maxWidth equal to the width you want. This way you will not have to adjust your layout to use the android:layout_weight.

For example if you want your EditText to always be 80 density pixels no matter how many characters you type in use the following:

android:minWidth="80dp"
android:maxWidth="80dp"