how to make scrollable ListView but not to fill whole screen?

Question

I want to make screen with TextView on top (title) a ListView in the middle and buttons on the bottom. How to place ListView that will fill entire space between top TextView and bottom Buttons and be able to scroll its content ?

Now, when my list grows, it pushes bottom button outside the screen.

I have:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <Button android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Button"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    />
    <TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    />
    <ListView android:id="@+id/lvLocations"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    />
    <TextView android:layout_height="0dip"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1" 
    />
    <Button android:text="LayerDrawable"
        android:id="@+id/button5"
        android:textSize="15dp"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="40dp"
        android:background="@drawable/layer_drawable"
    />

</LinearLayout>

The last TextView is used to make a gap and move Button to a bottom.

Answer 1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">

  <LinearLayout
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:orientation="horizontal">
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/title"
        android:text="arg0"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1" android:textStyle="bold"/>
  </LinearLayout>

  <ListView
      android:id="@+id/list"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
      android:layout_weight="1"/>

  <LinearLayout
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:orientation="horizontal">
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/prevButton"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="Previous" 
        android:layout_weight="1"/>
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/nextButton"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:text="Next" 
        android:layout_weight="1"/>
  </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

This is exactly how I have mine set up, and it works great.

Answer 2

Use a LinearLayout. Set the layout_weight="1" to your ListView with layout_height="fill_parent". Remove weight of other elements.

<ListView android:id="@+id/lvLocations"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
  android:layout_weight="1"
></ListView>