Android Layout; Image takes entire screen -

i trying fill activity 2 views, imageview on left side, , textview on right. image should sized fill entire vertical space. text should occupy whatever space left over. after watching few tutorials, seems need linearlayout horizontal orientation, , textview's layout_weight property positive integer.

this have far:

<linearlayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"     android:orientation="horizontal"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="match_parent"     android:paddingbottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" tools:context=".mainactivity">      <imageview         android:id="@+id/imageview"         android:layout_width="wrap_content"         android:layout_height="match_parent"         android:src="@drawable/charsheet" />      <textview         android:id="@+id/ipsum"         android:layout_width="wrap_content"         android:layout_height="match_parent"         android:layout_weight="1"         android:text="@string/ipsum" />  </linearlayout> 

the problem is, however, image, creates white space left , right fills entire screen. there no room left textview.

i tried using relativelayout imageview's tostartof property set id of textview, text fills entire screen instead.

i wouldn't have thought such complicated thing do, when set out make activity, here are. appreciated.

i think thing you're missing adjustviewbounds on imageview. try this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <linearlayout     xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="match_parent"     android:orientation="horizontal"     >      <imageview         android:id="@+id/imageview"         android:layout_width="wrap_content"         android:layout_height="match_parent"         android:scaletype="fitstart"         android:adjustviewbounds="true"         android:src="@drawable/doug"         />      <textview         android:id="@+id/ipsum"         android:layout_width="0dp"         android:layout_height="match_parent"         android:layout_weight="1"         android:text="ipsum"         />  </linearlayout> 

without adjustimagebounds, imageview takes more space needs display image.

the above layout creates preview in android studio looks me: