Nest TableLayout inside LinearLayout - is it possible?

Question

I want to produce an Android screen layout that looks something like the following:

Label   Text Field
Label   Text Field
Label   Text Field

-----Button-------
-----TextField----

That is, I want to have a TableLayout at the top, with a number of items underneath the table layout (mainly so I can force these items to be at the bottom of the screen). I have tried to nest them as in the code below, but the items at the bottom don't seem to appear.

Any ideas?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">
<TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:stretchColumns="1"
    android:shrinkColumns="1" android:layout_height="wrap_content"  android:layout_gravity="center_vertical">
    <TableRow>
        <TextView android:text="Latitude:"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
        />
        <TextView android:id="@+id/latitude"
        android:text="Not available"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
        />
    </TableRow>
    <TableRow>
        <TextView android:text="Longitude:"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"/>
        <TextView android:id="@+id/longitude"
        android:text="Not available"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"/>
    </TableRow>
    <TableRow>
        <TextView android:text="Altitude:"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"/>
        <TextView android:id="@+id/altitude"
        android:text="Not available"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"/>
    </TableRow>
    <TableRow>
        <TextView android:text="Accuracy:"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"/>
        <TextView android:id="@+id/accuracy"
        android:text="Not available"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"/>
    </TableRow>
</TableLayout>
<Button android:id="@+id/save"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Save"/>
<TextView android:text="Test"/>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

in your table layout add these

android:layout_height="80dp"  
 android:layout_weight="1.0"

also for the bottom button and and text view add fixed height.If your table needs more space then put it between scrollView