Putting a background on the linear layout and takes almost 3/4 of the screen

Question

I have tried all kinds of help from other posts (setting widths to 0dp etc.) but nothing seems to work.

I have 2 layouts and the first one still seems to dominate. If I

Answer 1

Do the following things. U can solve your problem.

• set the android:layout_width of the children to "0dp"
• set the android:weightSum of the parent
• set the android:layout_weight of each child proportionally (e.g. weightSum = "5", three children: layout_weight="1", layout_weight="3", layout_weight="1")