Why does adding this empty padding View mess up my layout?

So I'm using layout weights to scale parts of my layout to a certain fraction of the screen, and when I try to add an empty view for padding between elements, it causes a 0-size error on the views.

The original layout, which works before adding anything is: http://pastiebin.com/?page=p&id=4e9777a2639f4 (Sorry for the pastebins instead of pasting it here, it wouldn't format correctly because of the xml tags)

And adding this between, or before or after any of the DWIButtons cause the error: http://pastiebin.com/?page=p&id=4e9777caefc2d

I have no idea what to do here ):

EDIT 1: Here it is without the padding view added

EDIT 2: Also, adding any other type of view doesn't mess it up.开发者_JS百科 I added a TextView instead of a blank View, and it resized correctly

adding images might help us understand the situation. but i suspect the layout weight is what is messing up your layout. setting layout weight to 1 means you want the blank layout to fill the available space(most of the time the entire screen).