I have a table graphic made with TextView, whose data is updated from an Activity, but if I set the minimum height this is fine as long as the text is not longer in that case the text view does not stretch, probably because the text is updated after the view is created...
This is an image of result (see the last green line)
And this is the code:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="25dp"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"><TextView
android:id="#+id/txtScNota"
android:layout_below="#+id/xmlScUltima"
android:layout_width="120dp"
android:layout_height="25dp"
android:layout_marginStart="5dp"
android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
android:background="#color/txtColSc"
android:gravity="start|center_vertical"
android:text=" Nota: "
android:textStyle="bold" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/xmlScNota"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/txtScNota"
android:layout_marginStart="10dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="5dp"
android:layout_toEndOf="#id/txtScNota"
android:background="#color/xmlColSc"
android:gravity="start|center_vertical"
android:minHeight="25sp"
android:paddingStart="3dp"
android:paddingEnd="3dp"
android:text="- - -"
Probably you're using a fixed height in the parent layout, or you're using wrap content.
If this is the case, it's also wrong because in one of the two TextViews you're using a fixed height, so the parent is inheriting that fixed height.
I don't know what are you using as parent layout but this is an example that should work
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="25dp"
android:orientation="horizontal"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtScNota"
android:layout_below="#+id/xmlScUltima"
android:layout_width="120dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginStart="5dp"
android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
android:background="#color/txtColSc"
android:gravity="start|center_vertical"
android:text=" Nota: "
android:textStyle="bold" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/xmlScNota"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/txtScNota"
android:layout_marginStart="10dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="5dp"
android:layout_toEndOf="#id/txtScNota"
android:background="#color/xmlColSc"
android:gravity="start|center_vertical"
android:minHeight="25sp"
android:paddingStart="3dp"
android:paddingEnd="3dp"
android:text="- - -"/>
</LinearLayout>
Here are some hints:
Make sure your android:height="wrap_content"
Add attribute android:lines="2" (this enforces that your textview allows 2 lines, up to you to decide how many lines you should allow)
If things become messed up, check your Layout element, it might be better to use a gridlayout for this case or a constraintlayout to achieve what you want.
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I have a listview and each row is shown after inflating the following view. It is a LinearLayout and it works fine until I give each textview (which is a column in my list) the same size. If I change any of those width I get unexpected results. For example, if I put 0.5 to the first textView (called "test") I was expecting that textView to have much smaller size, but it is opposite. So I tried using 3, but again very unexpected behavior. So if I want the first textView to be much smaller than the other 4, how can I do that?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="30dp"
android:paddingLeft="5dp"
android:paddingTop="2dp">
<TextView
android:text="Test"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="3"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:textColor="#333333"
android:id="#+id/testView" />
<TextView
android:text="Name"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:textColor="#333333"
android:id="#+id/nameView" />
<TextView
android:text="Surname"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:textColor="#333333"
android:id="#+id/surnameView" />
<TextView
android:text="Age"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:textColor="#333333"
android:id="#+id/ageView" />
<TextView
android:text="Profession"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:textColor="#333333"
android:id="#+id/professionView" />
If I change any of those width I get unexpected results.
The reason you get unexpected results is that you set every TextView layout_width property to match_parent. The document said that :
Child views can specify a weight value, and then any remaining space in the view group is assigned to children in the proportion of their declared weight.
We can see that the layout_widt property for every TextView in your layout should set to wrap_content. It means the width of the TextView equal to the original width (android: layout_width =warp_content) plus the proportion of the remaining space. Just like this.
So, idea in this: I have two TextViews, first can expand whatever it wants, second always 5 chars (time). Problem is in that first TextView can easily push second out of the screen.
So, what I need is something like adjustable LinearLayout, or maybe some GridLayout that will move second TextView on some sort of second line if it doesn't fit parent.
For example you can watch at message bubbles in Viber and WhatsApp. Thanks for any advise.
Update 1
Here is XML that i have now (Only message part)
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/messageBox"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:gravity="center_vertical">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="14sp"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:textAppearance="#style/Base.TextAppearance.AppCompat.Medium"
android:textColor="#color/black"
android:text='#{mess.message}'/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical|end"
android:gravity="center_vertical|end"
android:paddingLeft="8dp"
android:textSize="12sp"
android:textAppearance="#style/Base.TextAppearance.AppCompat.Small"
android:text='#{Utils.parseMillsToHoursAndMins(mess.date)}'/>
</LinearLayout>
Update 2
So I added layout_weight to first TextView, that helped with my first problem, but now I have new one. This two TextViews are in LinearLayout which is in another LinearLayout with another TextView. Parent LinearLayout have width set to wrap_content so if top TextView will be bigger than 2 TextViews it will cause child LinearLayout to be less than it's parent, and 2nd TextView (from that 2) wouldn't be in the end of parent. But when child LinearLayout is bigger, all appears to be OK. I know it's complicated, so this is XML
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minWidth="0dp"
android:id="#+id/contentPanel"
app:bringToFront="#{true}"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:background="#{(mess.isMine?#drawable/chat_bubble_right:#drawable/chat_bubble_left)}">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text='#{!mess.authorRole.equals("Client")?(mess.authorRole + " - " + mess.author):mess.author}'
android:textColor='#{mess.authorRole.equals("Lawyer")?#color/colorPrimary:mess.authorRole.equals("Admin")?#color/red:#color/green}'
android:textSize="12sp"
android:id="#+id/author"
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-medium"
android:textAppearance="#style/Base.TextAppearance.AppCompat.Small"/>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/messageBox">
<TextView
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="14sp"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_weight="0.7"
android:textAppearance="#style/Base.TextAppearance.AppCompat.Medium"
android:textColor="#color/black"
android:text='#{mess.message}'/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingLeft="8dp"
android:textSize="12sp"
android:gravity="bottom|end"
android:textAppearance="#style/Base.TextAppearance.AppCompat.Small"
app:checkFit="#{false}"
android:text='#{Utils.parseMillsToHoursAndMins(mess.date)}'/>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
The new approach for achieving such behaviour is using ConstraintLayout with Flow. Here is an example of usage:
<androidx.constraintlayout.helper.widget.Flow
android:id="#+id/socialsButtonsFlow"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="6dp"
app:flow_horizontalGap="8dp"
app:flow_verticalGap="4dp"
app:flow_wrapMode="aligned"
app:flow_horizontalStyle="spread_inside"
app:constraint_referenced_ids="vkButton,twitterButton,facebookButton,youtubeButton,instagramButton,odnoklassnikiButton,tiktokButton"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="#id/socialsLabel"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="#+id/socialsLabel"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/socialsLabel" />
For small screens it looks like this:
I am not sure this will help you or not but:
Use: https://github.com/ApmeM/android-flowlayout
<org.apmem.tools.layouts.FlowLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
</org.apmem.tools.layouts.FlowLayout>
Inside FlowLayout you can put your view's and it will auto move to next line if not fit.
if your textviews in linearlayout you can add weightSum method
I have 3 TextViews inside a linearLayout (horizontal), and when the last textview is too big or there is no space for it, it is matching parent and looking like the image below:
Image Here
What I want is to, IF the textview reaches the linearlayout's width, then, the textview should be moved below "Property" textView. (next line)
Take a look at how it should be:
Image here
That's a snippet of my XML:
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearance"
android:text="Property"
android:id="#+id/txtPropertyType" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearance"
android:text="/ 127 m"
android:id="#+id/txtArea"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearance"
android:text="/ 3 roomsssssssssdddd"
android:singleLine="false"
android:id="#+id/txtNumRoom"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp" />
</LinearLayout>
Thanks in advance x)
Modify your xml and add another TextView below the LinearLayout:
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearance"
android:text="Property"
android:id="#+id/txtPropertyType" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearance"
android:text="/ 127 m"
android:id="#+id/txtArea"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearance"
android:text="/ 3 roomsssssssssdddd"
android:singleLine="false"
android:id="#+id/txtNumRoom"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp" />
</LinearLayout>
<TextView
android:visibility="gone"
android:layout_below="#+id/linearLayout"
android:id="#+id/long_room"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="dfgdfdfgddfgdfgdd"/>
Now, you have 2 options:
OPTION 1: Check the length of the room number textview. If it's more than, say, 12 (you have to find the number considering all letters to be widest ones - like w), then make the visibility of txtNumRoom GONE and that of long_room visible.
OPTION 2: Find the height of the txtNumRoom before it gets rendered and displayed. If this height is greater than height of txtArea, that means the textview has gone multiple-lines. Again, in that case,make the visibility of txtNumRoom GONE and that of long_room visible.
Refer to this question to know how to find height of a textview programmatically before it gets rendered.
Just add android:singleLine="true" on each text view. Your problem here is that your TextView is spreading on more than one line.
Since August 2020, there is the option to use a ConstraintLayout with the virtual layout Flow.
Your elements should be wrapped in a ConstraintLayout together with a Flow element like in the following sample XML:
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginStart="16dp"
android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="16dp"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearance"
android:text="Property"
android:id="#+id/txtPropertyType"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearance"
android:text="/ 127 m"
android:id="#+id/txtArea"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearance"
android:text="/ 3 roomssssssssssssssssssssss"
android:singleLine="false"
android:id="#+id/txtNumRoom"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"/>
<androidx.constraintlayout.helper.widget.Flow
android:id="#+id/flow"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:constraint_referenced_ids="txtPropertyType, txtArea, txtNumRoom"
app:flow_horizontalGap="4dp"
app:flow_horizontalStyle="packed"
app:flow_horizontalBias="0.0"
app:flow_wrapMode="chain"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#id/flow"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearance"
android:text="$2000.000"/>
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>
The elements that are involved in the wrapping (all elements in the line that must wrap if too big) must have ids which are then added in the app:constraint_referenced_ids tag of Flow.
app:flow_horizontalStyle="packed" and app:flow_horizontalBias="0.0" are necessary to left-align your text (flow_horizontalBias won't work unless elements are packed), but can be changed depending on the layout you want to achieve.
app:flow_wrapMode tells the flow-layout how to position elements, and must be set to either chain or aligned, once again chain was necessary to be able to left-align the text.
It is also important to set the height of the Flow element to 0dp so it can determine how much space it needs by itself.
The TextView below should be constrained to the Flow element so that it can be positioned dynamically depending on the position of the elements inside.
Screenshot of the layout with small text
Screenshot of the layout with overflowing text
I am trying to put a text below an image but they are not showing up in android layout.
Here is the screenshot:
I dont' see any text below image.
And my code: inside a relative layout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/layout_footer"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_height="?android:attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="#color/panelcolor" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/searchicon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingRight="60dp"
android:src="#drawable/search_white" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/searchText"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingRight="60dp"
android:textColor="#color/whitetext"
android:layout_below="#+id/searchicon"
android:text="Search" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/homeicon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingRight="60dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/searchicon"
android:src="#drawable/ic_home" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/hometext"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingRight="60dp"
android:textColor="#color/whitetext"
android:layout_below="#+id/homeicon"
android:text="Home" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/wishicon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/homeicon"
android:src="#drawable/ic_favorite" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/wishtext"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingRight="60dp"
android:textColor="#color/whitetext"
android:layout_below="#+id/wishicon"
android:text="Wish List" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/viewicon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingLeft="60dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/wishicon"
android:src="#drawable/ic_eye" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/viewtext"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingRight="60dp"
android:textColor="#color/whitetext"
android:layout_below="#+id/wishicon"
android:text="Viewed" />
</RelativeLayout>
Not sure what is wrong?
Assuming you follow Googles Design guidelines
(Tabs with icons and text Height - 72dp;
Icon - 24 x 24dp)
Change 'match_parent' to 'wrap_content' for the ImageViews
The problem is you have put android:layout_height="match_parent" for image views and android:layout_height="wrap_content" for text views. Either use wrap_content for image view or use use a LinearLayout with android:weight property. Using LinearLayout would also solve your problem of alignment if it occurs!
Try setting android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" instead of android:layout_below="#+id/homeicon".
This aligns the text at the bottom of the parent. You might also need to set android:layout_alignLeft="" and align it to the corresponding imageView.
This method will only work, if there is enough padding below the image. This is because the text will now overlap the image.
EDIT:
Another way would be, to set the relative layout to a fixed height you know (like 60dp) and set the imageView to a fixed height (like 40dp). Then the TextView will also show up below the ImageView.
I'm trying (in vain) to add margins to my ListView items. I have tried adding margin values to my RelativeLayout below but no matter what I do all I seem to get is a 1px line between each item.
What I really would like is to have rounded corners on each item, a 1px black border and a 3-5px margin left, top, and right but right now I'll settle for just a margin around each item :-)
How do I achieve my goals? Just the margin for now... ;-)
Here's what I have:
UPDATE: I have updated the xml below removing main layout and fragment layout. I have also updated the ListView item layout to what I have now which is closer to what I want but still not perfect. Screenshot added as well
listview item layout xml
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/matchMargin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/matchMargin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/matchMargin" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#cfcfcfcf" >
<include
android:id="#+id/matchKampstart"
layout="#layout/kampstart_layout" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/matchKampstart"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/belowKampstartMargin" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/tournamentImageView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:contentDescription="#string/tournamentImageViewContentDescription"
android:gravity="left"
android:src="#drawable/sofabold_launcher" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/homeTeamImageView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:contentDescription="#string/homeTeamImageViewContentDescription"
android:src="#drawable/sofabold_launcher" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/homeTeam"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
android:text="#string/home"
android:textSize="14sp"
android:textStyle="bold" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/dash"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="#string/dash"
android:textSize="12sp"
android:textStyle="bold" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/awayTeamImageView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:contentDescription="#string/awayTeamImageViewContentDescription"
android:src="#drawable/sofabold_launcher" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/awayTeam"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="#string/away"
android:textSize="14sp"
android:textStyle="bold" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_below="#id/matchKampstart"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/belowKampstartMargin" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/tvChannelImageView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:adjustViewBounds="false"
android:contentDescription="#string/tvChannelImageViewContentDescription"
android:gravity="right"
android:src="#drawable/sofabold_launcher" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
This gives me the following where you'll notice a very small line to the right and left for each item. That I would also like to get rid of.
I'm not great with layouts, but I have noticed in the past that ListView rows often ignore LayoutParams. I have no idea where this happens or if it's possible to override, I do know you can easily work around it by adding another layout:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
android:background="#990000ff" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:background="#9900ff00"
android:paddingLeft="10dp" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#99ff0000" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Typically layouts that only have one child can be removed, but as you can see this one serves a purpose:
The outer-most layout is blue, the TextView is red, and the green is the extra layout that allows you to add some extra spacing. Notice the difference between padding (the green on the left) and margin (no green on the right). You have clearly stated that you want to use margins (android:layout_margin) but your code clearly uses padding (android:padding) so I included both.
A little late seeing this, but just add the following lines to your ListView xml element
android:divider="#00000000"
android:dividerHeight="10dp"
See the answer here for why. In short the child asks the parent, and the list view row uses AbsListView.LayoutParams, which doesn't include margins.
Why LinearLayout's margin is being ignored if used as ListView row view
In your adapter, catch your relative layout in getView(), then give a layout params ,
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = (RelativeLayout.LayoutParams)view.getLayoutParams();
params.setMargins(80, 0, 0, 0); //substitute parameters for left, top, right, bottom
YourRelativeLayoutInAdapter.setLayoutParams(params);
I suppose you have a ListView defined in an XML file somewhere, if so, you could add some padding to it, so that there will be some space between the edge of the screen and the ListView.
Example:
<ListView
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"
android:padding="15dp"/>