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I'm trying to make my layouts more landscape friendly, and a common pattern I have is to add a LinearLayout with some buttons (e.g. OK | Cancel) and just set a value for layout_weight so that the space is evenly distributed. The problem is that when you use a phone or (especially) a tablet in landscape mode, you end up with humongous buttons that look ridiculous. I tried setting maxWidth on the buttons and on the linear layout but to no avail. What would be the easiest way to achieve this? Namely, setting a maximum horizontal size for the view so that it does not grow to the whole width. I tried a bunch of different things, but none worked. Here's a sample layout: <LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:gravity="center_horizontal" android:paddingLeft="10dp" android:paddingRight="10dp" android:paddingTop="6dp" android:paddingBottom="6dp"> <Button android:id="@+id/button1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1" android:enabled="false" android:textStyle="bold" android:text="@string/button1" /> <Button android:id="@+id/button2" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1" android:text="@string/button2" /> </LinearLayout> Note: I know I can create a new layout file for landscape and do magic there. I want to keep the specialized layout files to a minimum, and I would hope this does not require them.

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