Android layout issue - linearlayout height not filling scrollview height

Question

I'm having a slight android layout issue...

I have a ScrollView element holding a LinearLayout. I want the scrollview to fill the entire device screen and the linearlayout to fill the whole height of the scrollview.

I have the code below which is resulting in the scrollView filling the whole screen but the linearLayout only filling about half of the height of the scrollview.

Here is my code:

<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="#ff036c07">
    <LinearLayout
        android:background="#FF0000"
                android:id="@+id/overview_form"
                xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
                xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              android:layout_height="fill_parent">


</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

Any ideas what I am missing?

Answer 1

Add
android:fillViewport="true"
to the scrollview .

Answer 2

Add the

android:fillViewport="true" property in your ScrollView and

also remove unncessary namespace from linearlayout which is

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