Android How to create Buttons of equal width in a row on any Screen width | How to implement linearlayout with 2 buttons, Horizontal and Vertical | Set two buttons to same width regardless of screen size

It is a common requirement to layout a bunch of buttons side by side. Making them of equal width is just plain good GUI design.

To achieve the effect above, first create a LinearLayout just for the buttons. The layout will contain three buttons.

<LinearLayout android:id="@+id/linearLayout1" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="fill_parent"> <Button android:id="@+id/button_accept" android:text="Accept" android:layout_weight="1" android:layout_height="40sp" android:layout_width="0dp"/> <Button android:id="@+id/button_reject" android:text="Reject" android:layout_weight="1" android:layout_height="40sp" android:layout_width="0dp"/> <Button android:id="@+id/button_ignore" android:text="Ignore" android:layout_weight="1" android:layout_height="40sp" android:layout_width="0dp"/> </LinearLayout>

We took these steps to get the effect: 1. For the LinearLayout we set android:layout_width="fill_parent". This causes the layout view to take up the full width available from the device. 2. For each Button, we set android:layout_width="fill_parent" and android:layout_weight="1".