title: Place buttons half in one layout parent and half in another
body: <p>I have the following layout, it works fine and gives me the result. The result I want is to divide the screen into two parts and place buttons half in each part: </p>
  
  <pre><code>   &lt;RelativeLayout
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:layout_height="200dp" &gt;
  
          &lt;LinearLayout
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              android:layout_height="fill_parent"
              android:orientation="vertical" &gt;
  
              &lt;LinearLayout
                  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                  android:layout_weight="1" &gt;
  
                  &lt;RelativeLayout
                      android:id="@+id/relative_layout_top"
                      android:layout_width="match_parent"
                      android:layout_height="wrap_content" &gt;
  
                      &lt;ImageView
                          android:id="@+id/imageView1"
                          android:layout_width="match_parent"
                          android:layout_height="match_parent"
                          android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
                          android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
                          android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
                          android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
                          android:scaleType="centerCrop" /&gt;
                  &lt;/RelativeLayout&gt;
              &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  
              &lt;LinearLayout
                  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                  android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                  android:layout_weight="1" &gt;
  
                  &lt;RelativeLayout
                      android:id="@+id/relative_layout_bottom"
                      android:layout_width="match_parent"
                      android:layout_height="100dp"
                      android:background="#fdd372" &gt;
  
                      &lt;TextView
                          android:id="@+id/textView2"
                          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                          android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
                          android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                          android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
                          android:layout_marginTop="0dp"
                          android:text="Jason D&amp;apos;Silva"
                          android:textColor="#696969"
                          android:textSize="22sp" /&gt;
  
                      &lt;TextView
                          android:id="@+id/textView3"
                          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                          android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView2"
                          android:layout_below="@+id/textView2"
                          android:layout_marginTop="05dp"
                          android:paddingBottom="05dp"
                          android:paddingTop="05dp"
                          android:text="Me and Christine"
                          android:textColor="#696969" /&gt;
  
                      &lt;!--
                          &lt;TextView
                          android:id="@+id/placeholder"
                          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                          android:layout_below="@+id/textView4"
                          android:layout_marginTop="02dp" /&gt;
                      --&gt;
  
                      &lt;TextView
                          android:id="@+id/textView4"
                          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                          android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/textView3"
                          android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/textView3"
                          android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
                          android:layout_marginRight="14dp"
                          android:text="24 October 2014"
                          android:textColor="#696969" /&gt;
                  &lt;/RelativeLayout&gt;
              &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
          &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  
          &lt;Button
              android:id="@+id/imageButton1"
              android:layout_width="50dp"
              android:layout_height="50dp"
              android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
              android:layout_centerVertical="true"
              android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
              android:background="@drawable/icon_edit"
              android:textColor="#000000" /&gt;
  
          &lt;Button
              android:id="@+id/imageButton2"
              android:layout_width="50dp"
              android:layout_height="50dp"
              android:layout_alignTop="@+id/imageButton1"
              android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
              android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/imageButton1"
              android:background="@drawable/icon_person" /&gt;
  
  
      &lt;/RelativeLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The only problem I have is that I want the <code>android:id="@+id/relative_layout_top</code> to take 1.5 times the space of <code>android:id="@+id/relative_layout_bottom</code> and still keep the buttons half in <code>android:id="@+id/relative_layout_bottom</code> and half in <code>android:id="@+id/relative_layout_bottom</code>. Currently both the halves are of the same size.  Any ideas hints or suggestions how to do that?</p>
  
  <p>Here is the graphical representation: </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7ccdY.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>