Button side by side LinearLayout

LinearLayout takes an eldest child wins approach. In your case, you have a LinearLayout with vertical orientation - so you will have the widgets placed one below the other. What you can do is have another nested LinearLayout within your root LinearLayout having horizontal orientation and have both buttons inside this. This would look something like:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" tools:context=".MainActivity" android:orientation="vertical" android:weightSum="1"> <TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Name" android:id="@+id/name" /> <EditText android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/nameText" /> <LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal" android:height="wrap_content" android:width="match_parent" > <Button android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="New Button" android:id="@+id/button" /> <Button android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="New Button" android:id="@+id/button" /> </LinearLayout> </LinearLayout> 

This should get both those buttons side by side. How much space you want to allocate to each button when they are placed side by side is for something for you to figure out.

Notice, I took out

android:layout_gravity="right" 

from the second button as it will automatically be placed to the right of the first button