Aligning A Recyclerview Below A Linearlayout

I have a linear layout called 'footer' I want to place below my RecyclerView (a new type of list introduced in API 21). The recyclerview will probably want to have a 'match_pare

Solution 1:

You just forgot to add this line

android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"

to your footer layout, so to anchor it to the bottom of the RelativeLayout.