Android EditText and Button on same line

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I need to have a Edittext beside a Search button. The EditText should fill as much of the width as possible, the button should be to the right and be just big enough to have it's text.

It looks like this now:

[EDIT TEXT][Search]

but should look like this:

[.......EDIT TEXT.......][Search]

Here is the XML:

<RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout01" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content">
        <EditText android:id="@+id/search_box" 
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:hint="type to filter"
            android:inputType="text"
            android:maxLines="1" />
        <Button android:id="@+id/search_text"
            android:layout_toRightOf="@id/search_box"
            android:text="Search"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
  </RelativeLayout>
android-button android-edittext layout android
6 Answers

For those who want a solution for a Relative Layout, try this. My goals was to keep the button size the same but adjust the EditText field when the phone was rotated to landscape mode or on different phone screen sizes.

So the trick is to use a combination of margins and aligning the parent to the start. Here is something you can try, I pulled this directly from my app.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@color/mainBackground"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:paddingLeft="3dp"
    android:paddingRight="1dp"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/itemEntry"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_marginStart="14dp"
        android:layout_marginEnd="100dp"
        android:layout_marginBottom="17dp"
        android:imeOptions="actionDone"
        android:inputType="text"
        android:textColor="@color/textColor" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button_insert"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignTop="@id/itemEntry"
        android:layout_marginStart="9dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="-4dp"
        android:layout_marginEnd="9dp"
        android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
        android:background="@drawable/round_button"
        android:text="+"
        android:textColor="#ffffff"
        android:textSize="20dp"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>

What you'll get is the EditText will change in size depending on screen-width while the button will remain fixed at the end. The button sticks at the end because of android:layout_alignParentEnd="true". And to stop the EditText from overrunning the Button, android:layout_marginEnd="100dp" is used. Hope this helps!

user_128669730

The better answer now is set layout_width of EditText to 0dp

<LinearLayout 
     android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
     android:orientation="horizontal"
     android:layout_width="fill_parent">
<EditText
     android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
     android:layout_weight="1"
     android:layout_width="0dp"/>
 <Button
    android:text="Button"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
 </LinearLayout>
user_65436930
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