Relativelayout not wrapping its content

Question

I want my inner RelativeLayout to wrap it's content and stay below the View element. Why isn't it behaving like the pic below?

My layout.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">
    <View
        android:id="@+id/linearLayout"
        android:layout_above="@+id/input_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/input_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:background="#ebebeb">

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/editText"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
            android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/imageView13"
            android:layout_toStartOf="@+id/imageView13"
            android:background="@android:color/white"
            android:padding="8dp" />

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/imageView13"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
            android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:src="@drawable/ic_m_send" />

    </RelativeLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

Answer 1

remove android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" from both your EditText and ImageView will solve your proble.

Your RelativeLayout already have android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" and if you will set same for it's child also it will set layout height to full screen.

Note that you cannot have a circular dependency between the size of the RelativeLayout and the position of its children. For example, you cannot have a RelativeLayout whose height is set to WRAP_CONTENT and a child set to ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM

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