How do I prevent an EditText from resizing itself

Question

I have an EditText and a Button set next to each other on the same horizontal line. It looks great, except when the user enters a lot of text, the EditText is resized, and the Button is squished.

I have both EditText and Button set to layout_width="wrap_content". "fill_parent" messes up the layout, and I don't want to use absolute sizes if I don't have to - the way it is now looks great in both landscape and portrait, I just don't want the EditText to resize.

My layout:

<TableLayout
    android:id="@+id/homelayout"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

    <TableRow>
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/labelartist"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Find artists:" />
    </TableRow>
    <TableRow>
        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/entryartist"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="6"
            android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background"
            android:editable="true"
            android:padding="5px"
            android:singleLine="true" />
        <Button
            android:id="@+id/okartist"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="Search" />
    </TableRow>

</TableLayout>

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, but I couldn't get the above to work. What I did, is take in the text from EditText box and then format it down to the max size that my screen could handle. When I save this off to the DB, I will save it as display Text and original text.

If you go to this page I put a longer explanation.

Answer 2

For EditText use

android:layout_width="0dp" - not required but preferred.
android:layout_weight="1"

And for Button dont specify android:layout_weight

Answer 3

The chosen solution works, but let me add a little complement:
if you use android:layout_weight="0.15" (the value is not important)
then
android:layout_width="0dp" if the LinearLayout is Horizontal
or
android:layout_height="0dp" if the LinearLayout is Vertical.

Answer 4

Just use:

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

for both EditText and Button. It will also work set for EditText but it is better to have it on both.