I'm adding a TextView to a parent LinearLayout RelativeLayout programmtically. There is enough space for the text to be displayed horizontally but for some reason the text is displayed vertically. Does anyone know what's going on here?
It's really hard to say what is the problem without looking at your XML and layout code. In my experience, sometimes it happens when the parent layout has height set as WRAP_CONTENT and the views inside it have wrong weight config, for example one has weight but WRAP_CONTENT and the other MATCH_PARENT (Sorry, I don't remember the case exactly). I suggest you check your LayoutParams carefully or set a fixed width and height for the TextView to see what is the problem.
You can also post your code here so we can have a look at it
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I have a recyclerview set up with a linear layout at horizontal where each imageview takes up the full width of the visible recyclerview. I was wondering how to fix this such that the imageview items are next to each other the way you'd see this in a carousel. A copy of what I'm seeing is found below. Thanks!
In your layout item, which you are inflating using the adapter class.. you should define the width of the layout as either wrap_content or a fixed value(for eg: 200dp or something else according to your need). I think you have used match_parent that's why you are facing such an issue.
Feel free to ask if something is unclear.
Looks like the ImageView has been resized based on the layout_height specified and you have a value of wrap_content on the layout_width. You should set the ImageView's attribute android:adjustViewBounds to true.
Reference: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ImageView#attr_android:adjustViewBounds
This question is based off my last question,
Why does text view not take up the whole table row's width?. The person gave me a working solution of adding layout_weight="1" to the text view. I was thankful for that but can anyone explain why making the width match_parent(in my original code) doesn't make the text view take up the whole row's width? For layout_weight, I know that this allocates extra space so all of the extra space in the table row should be given to the textview which allows it to take up the whole row. But can't this same logic work with match_parent. Match_parent makes it so that the text view will take up the width of its parent, the table row.
I'm not an expert on this, but it seems to be a problem related with the TableLayout. I found the next info about this:"The children of a TableLayout cannot specify the layout_width attribute. Width is always MATCH_PARENT." So this problem could be solved by setting the weight to the children, or programmatically like is explained here:
match_parent doesn't fill parent!
Hope this helped you!
I have done some basic xml layout from the Internet and I am confused as to what android:gravity would be used for vs android:layout-gravity. The UI designer seems to respond well when I change the layout_gravity, but I get no response to the regular gravity? What is up with this?
Is this similar to layout parameters with fill-parent and match-parent? one is gone now.
android:gravity is a statement from a parent to its content, indicating where the content should slide within the available parent space (if there is room for such sliding).
android:layout_gravity is a request from a child to its parent, asking that it be slid in a certain direction (if there is room for such sliding).
layout_gravity - It contains and it belongs to component's parent layout. Like if you set one TextView in LinearLayout, LinearLayout's width is fill_parent, but TextView basically will set at left-top. So now if you would give layout_gravity=right then your TextView will be shifted to top-right corner. But the text will not change its place. i.e. you had been wrote "Hello world" then "hello world" will not be changed to right, but its parent textView will be changed to right. So here in this case it will belongs to LinearLayout, means parent Layout.
gravity- It contains and it belongs to TextView as per above explanation. if you will give gravity="right" then "Hello-world" text will go to right-top corner of TextView not LinearLayout.
I am trying to fit two EditTexts horizontally. What I am trying to accomplish is make the text keep scrolling right without the EditText extending in anyway when there is no more space in that specific EditText. This happens when the EditText is set to match_parent (width), but when I set an actually width or wrap_content, it breaks to the next line. Not the behavior I am hoping for. Any ideas?
If I understood your question correctly, you're saying you want the edit text to be a single line each? If so, have you tried using the xml attribute
android:singleLine
Or you can accomplish the same thing with:
setSingleLine() //called on the edit text
I just tested it out with 2 edit texts in a horizontal linear layout set to 100dp width each and I think it accomplishes the behavior you want.
You can try this:
Set both to fill_parent and layout_weight=1. This will align them side by side.
Take a look at my layout
http://pastebin.com/6tQVm3Rk
My problem is that the textviews (named header1 to 5) are resizing its containers when a certain amount of letters are written into it, although there is still some space left.
What changes do I have to make that the layout stays in its original state independent from the amount of text located in the headers?
This might be because of this attribute.
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
If you want your textview to have only one line you can use android:singleline="true"
Add the attribute
android:maxLength="2"
to the textview. This way you can limit the number of characters.
I think its better to use Relative layout instead Linear layout in the XML so that objects in Relative layout are easy to manage dynamically, all you need to do is that put all those text views in the Relative layout and set these parameters:
layout align left:
layout align right:
And other solution which is not appropriate is that fix the size of text view then it will not expand.
And please see the Documentation for further details of Relative Layout.
Set the width and heigth of your textview to a fixed amount of dp. This will prevent the textview from streching beyond the width and height you declared. Like this:
android:layout_width="50dp"
android:layout_heigth="50dp"
For me the solution was to use
android:layout_width="0dp"
together with
android:maxLines="1"