 <p>Try by giving margins and padding to enlarge view</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:orientation="horizontal" android:padding="1dp" android:weightSum="1"&gt; &lt;TextView android:id="@+id/itemLabel" android:layout_width="0dp" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_weight="0.6" android:background="#00ffff" android:layout_margin="20dp" android:padding="10dp" android:gravity="center_vertical" android:text="Settings Item: " android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" android:textColor="@android:color/holo_blue_dark"/&gt; &lt;EditText android:id="@+id/et_item_value" android:layout_margin="20dp" android:layout_width="0dp" android:padding="10dp" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_weight="0.4" android:background="#ffff00" android:textColor="@android:color/holo_blue_dark" android:textColorHint="@android:color/darker_gray"/&gt; &lt;/LinearLayout&gt; </code></pre>