Try this layout:

<RelativeLayout
    <TableLayout  // parent layout
        <TableLayout  // row 1 of parent layout
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            <TableRow
                <TextView/></TableRow>
            <TableRow
                <TextView/></TableRow>
            <TableRow
                <TextView/></TableRow>
            <TableRow
                <TextView/></TableRow>
            <TableRow
                <TextView/></TableRow>
        </TableLayout>
        <TextView>  // row 2 of parent layout
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"</TextView>
    </TableLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

Any help with this?

Hey Farrell. I was not trying to make columns take up a percentage of the screen horizontally. I was trying to make a whole TableLayout take up a percentage of the screen vertically. I was basically trying to split the screen vertically into 3 sections -- two nonscrolling sections and one scrolling section.

I am pretty sure there are no TableRows nested inside of TableRows. There are TableLayouts with TableRows inside of it nested within a TableRow, but that is it.

I actually figured out how to make this work but the code is getting very messy (to me). I might need to take your advice and discover how GridLayout and RelativeLayouts work. It probably would be better than what I am doing. I just hate to stop with what I got since it is working, sort of, and I have so much written.

It is working. I added the below in the TableLayout xml:

android:stretchColumns="1"
android:shrinkColumns="0"

And put the ImageView xml as so:

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/q1Image"
    android:layout_width="10dp"
    android:layout_height="10dp" />

Thank you for the help farrell!

I got this working Mac. Thank you for your interest.