Weight change does not take effect in layout

I think I am missing something basic here. See if anyone of you can help.

I have an activity (activity_story1) where I load some text and some other controls. The way I laid out all the components is to put them in RelativeLayout groups in the LinearLayout, and then I assigned weights to these RelativeLayouts. Sample xml below for reference.

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".Story1Activity" 
android:id="@+id/StoryLinearLayout">

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/titleStory"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dip"
        android:layout_weight="0.05"/>

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/textViewStory1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dip"
        android:layout_weight="0.90"/>

<LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/footerStoryLinearLayout"
        android:layout_weight="0.05"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dip">
        <RelativeLayout
            android:id="@+id/footerStoryRelativeLayout"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent">
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/PageCount"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
                android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
                android:text="page count"/>
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/textView1"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
                android:onClick="addBookmark"
                android:clickable="true"/>

        </RelativeLayout>

</LinearLayout>

      

        
        
        
      

    

I am loading some text in the textviews above in onCreate. So far so good.

Now I am overriding onConfigurationChanged (), since when the user changes the screen alignment, my content stays the same and onCreate () is not called to reload the content in the text views. In onConfigurationChanged (), I also use the code below to change the weight of my relativelayout "titleStoryRelativeLayout".

//change the weight of the textview when screen alignment changes
    LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(this);
    LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout)inflater.inflate(R.layout.activity_story1, null);
   LinearLayout yourRL = (LinearLayout)ll.findViewById(R.id.footerStoryLinearLayout);
   yourRL.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, 0, 0.1f));

      

        
        
        
      

    

However, as soon as I rebuild my screen (when onConfigurationChanged () is called) the weight change does not take effect. I can see that the variables yourRL, etc. Are filled in. The main reason I change the weight of my Relativelayout (which contains the titleStory TextView) is because when the alignment changes, I want the height of my titleStory text to change (increase / decrease) for a better view. With the code I added to onConfigurationChanged () above, I expected the weight to change (from 0.05 to 0.01), and hence the height of the text should have changed as well.