Overlapping TextView items in RelativeLayout in 2.2; no problem in 1.6

Question

I have a problem with a RelativeLayout containing two TextViews and a ImageView, that I use for displaying items in a ListView. The items are correctly displayed on Android 1.6, but on Android 2.2 the TextViews are overlapping.

Here is an image that shows the correct and incorrect behavior side-by-side:

And here is the source code of my RelativeLayout:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
android:padding="6dip">

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/icon"

    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"

    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_marginRight="6dip"
    />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/secondLine"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"

    android:ellipsize="marquee"
    android:singleLine="true"

    android:layout_below="@+id/firstLine"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@id/icon"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
/>

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/firstLine"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"

    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:ellipsize="marquee"
    android:singleLine="true"

    android:layout_toRightOf="@id/icon"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
/>

</RelativeLayout>

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks a lot,

Philipp

Answer 1

This is basically the same answer as Octavian's, but I don't think he actually explained it very well.

You have contradicting statements in your XML file. You have:

android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"

in both of your text views. You also have:

android:layout_below="@+id/firstLine"

in one of the textviews. Essentially, your trying to align to the bottom of a relative layout and then trying to put something under it. There isn't anything "under the bottom."

Remove this contradicting logic and it should solve your problem.

Answer 2

I'm not 100% sure if it is the problem but on your TextView with the ID firstLine it seems like you are aligning it to it's parents bottom like you do with TextView ID secondLine. I'm quite sure you wanted to say android:layout_alignParentTop="true" instead.

I can't tell why it is working on Android 1.6 but not on 2.2.