Adding custom list adapter to a TableLayout - android

I have a custom list adapter inside of a TableLayout. This TableLayout is nested inside a of a LinearLayout.
The list adapter expands if new childviews are added to the list. I want the size of the TableRow to increase dynamically when the size of the list adapter increases. And the buttons pushed down when the list grows.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_width="match_parent"
>
<LinearLayout">
<!-- Draw header + sub title -->
<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent" >
<TextView ></TextView>
<TextView ></TextView>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal">
<ImageView />
<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1">
<TableLayout android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_weight="1">
<TableRow android:id="#+id/tr1">
<CustomList android:id="#+id/mainview"
ndroid:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="wrap_content" />
</TableRow>
<TableRow android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent">
<Button android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:id="#+id/button1"
android:text="#string/buttonPrevious" android:layout_height="wrap_content">
</Button>
<Button android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:id="#+id/button2"
android:text="#string/buttonNext" android:layout_height="wrap_content"></Button>
</TableRow>
</TableLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<ImageView />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
Do I have to do change something like change the way layouts are inflated in my custom list adapter or anything else?

Please read the following question and answers. I believe this may be the same thing you are trying to achieve
Android ListView that does not scroll?

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Using a RelativeLayout to split a layout evenly

I have a Listview where each listview item looks like this!
The ListViewItem is a RelativeLayout. Now I am having problem in creating the two split-screen buttons. Currently I'm doing it like this.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_below="#+id/ReviewText">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="0dp"
android:onClick="likeClicked"
android:clickable="true" >
<!-- SOME CODE -->
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="0dp"
android:onClick="likeClicked"
android:clickable="true" >
<!-- SOME CODE -->
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<RelativeLayout>
This is working perfectly fine, but the android dev documentation here says that
Furthermore, nesting several instances of LinearLayout that use the
layout_weight parameter can be especially expensive as each child
needs to be measured twice. This is particularly important when the
layout is inflated repeatedly, such as when used in a ListView or
GridView.
Can I improve my code for performance. If yes, How? Is there any other way to have two buttons split evenly without using LinearLayout?
In order to minimize layout nesting, so to optimize performances, I'd write a layout (which does take advantage of the layout's relativity) like this one:
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
<View
android:id="#+id/dummy"
android:layout_width="1dp"
android:layout_height="1dp"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:visibility="invisible"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnLeft"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/dummy"
android:onClick="likeClicked"
android:clickable="true"
/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnRite"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/dummy"
android:onClick="likeClicked"
android:clickable="true"
/>
<RelativeLayout>
I put a dummy View which is aligned to the center, then 2 buttons which I align to the left and to the right side of it.
For a simple layout like your's LinearLayout's are perfect choice. The only thing to be wary about is nesting layout weight's inside a view whose parent already has a layout-weight assigned. This is perfectly ok:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/ic_launcher" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Button" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button2"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button" />
</LinearLayout>
While this is not:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1" > <!-- nesting this way is bad for performance -->
android:text="Button" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Button" />
</Button>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<!-- this is ok -->
<Button
android:id="#+id/button2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<place top item layout here>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:weightSum="2">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="0dp"
android:onClick="likeClicked"
android:clickable="true"
android:layout_weight="1"
>
<!-- SOME CODE -->
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="0dp"
android:onClick="likeClicked"
android:clickable="true" >
<!-- SOME CODE -->
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Hope , The performance can be improved if you follow the listed points
First thins don't use much XML code when you need something dynamically
instead of creating the 2 relative layouts in XML , create a class where it extends Linear layout/Relative layout
add the views which you want to show in the list item to the above layout
Measure the height and width dynamical with in the same class
And make sure the layout is parametrized where you can pass the content dynamically
Finally , you can inflate the created view , Using getview method of an adapter**
Refer the following link
Dynamic listview content loader

vertical layout little issue

I have a LinearLayout (vertical) and it should contain 3 elements in the following order: textview, listview and button. The listview could be really high so in order to keep all the 3 elements visible I put the 3 elements each one inside another layout. So my structure is like:
linear layout (vertical)
linear layout (horizontal)
textview
linear layout (vertial) *
listview
relative layout
button
In order to get it working I set a fixed height to the vertical linearlayout which only contains the listview (*) but I know it is a bad choice because on bigger devices there will be a lot of empty space. How can I fix it?
thanks
User percentage values for the LinearLayout(*), so they take up a percentage of the parent's height,
and for the rest, if you want them to take up remaining space, add attribute: android:layout_weight:1;
Implement your layout this way :
<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="match_parent" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/mTextView"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:gravity="center"
android:padding="10dp"
android:text="Header Text" />
<ListView
android:id="#+id/mListView"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_above="#+id/mButton"
android:layout_below="#+id/mTextView" >
</ListView>
<Button
android:id="#+id/mButton"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:text="Button1" />
</RelativeLayout>
// try this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:padding="5dp"
android:orientation="vertical">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textview"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="textview"/>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
android:layout_weight="1">
<ListView
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
android:divider="#null"
android:dividerHeight="0dp"
android:smoothScrollbar="true"
android:id="#+id/listview"/>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
android:gravity="center">
<Button
android:id="#+id/button"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="button"/>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Wrap buttons ontop and in middle using Relative Layout

I would like to have a layout which is similar to
Kinda feel guilty because I recently just asked a question about layouts but I had no idea that I needed to do this(nor did I know it was this hard), I have researched into View Layouts and I've tried use layout.toRightOf etc etc. I have the left/right arrows, I just need to add the up and down buttons
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:game_view="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/pap.crowslanding"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/flayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_above="#+id/button1"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<pap.crowslanding.GameView
android:id="#+id/game_view"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
game_view:ballDiam="#dimen/ballDiam"
game_view:cellWidth="#dimen/cellWidth"
game_view:pixelHeight="#dimen/pixelHeight"
game_view:pixelWidth="#dimen/pixelWidth" />
<pap.crowslanding.MazeBall
android:id="#+id/mazeball"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:visibility="invisible"
game_view:ballDiam="#dimen/ballDiam"
game_view:cellWidth="#dimen/cellWidth" />
</FrameLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/right" >
</Button>
<Button
android:id="#+id/button2"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/down" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
So essentially, just some insight on how I could add the up and down buttons within the same layout as to avoid layouts drawn onto my activity and overlapping
It seems that all your button images have the same height, so why not just use a TableLayout?
Keep the top-left and top-right cells empty, and in the other cells put your buttons.
Code (ommitting variables):
<TableLayout>
<TableRow>
<View />
<Button>...</Button>
<View />
</TableRow>
<TableRow>
<Button>...</Button>
<Button>...</Button>
<Button>...</Button>
</TableRow>
</TableLayout>

How to divide screen with three different-sized panel in android?

i want to create a screen like this on the android :
and achieving this, i write some codes like that.. But i didn't do what i want. The text area doesn't exist in the screen. What should i do ? Any opinion.. thank you in advance..
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/linearLayout123"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:weightSum="1.0"
android:gravity="fill">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/linearLayout12"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="top" >
<Button android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Hello, I am a Button" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/linearLayout2"
android:layout_width="118dp"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_gravity="right"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<Button android:id="#+id/button2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Hello, I am a Button" />
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/linearLayout1"
android:layout_width="228dp"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_gravity="left" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Hello, I am a TextView" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
A RelativeLayout will accomplish what you want
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/rightLayout"
android:layout_width="100dip"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:background="#003300"
android:orientation="vertical" >
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/topLayout"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/rightLayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="100dip"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:background="#330033"
android:orientation="vertical" >
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/bottomLayout"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/rightLayout"
android:layout_below="#id/topLayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:background="#334433"
android:orientation="vertical" >
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
The result as LinearLayouts and as Buttons/TextViews (since I wasn't sure which you wanted):
If you are using the LinearLayouts as a container to hold multiple views then leave it as I have it.
If you plan on having only one view in each of your "parts" change the LinearLayouts in my layout file to that type.
Ex. if you want Part 1 to be just a button change
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/topLayout"
to be
<Button
android:id="#+id/topLayout"
Nested views are bad so its good to avoid them if you can
you could :
Main linear layout with vertical alignment
add a new linear layout with horizontal alignment
add a new linear layout with horizontal or vertical alignment
So in the first layout ( the left part of main layout) you add a new linear layout with horizontal alignment and add the two elements you want.
In the second layout ( the right part of main layout) you add a new linear layout or directly the object you want to show

checkbox'ed list on each tab

I am new to this community as well as to android development.
For my study I need to make a (yes/no)questionnaire divided into 3 groups, some of the questions are quite long, so I want to make a part of it as big text and other part below as a small one.
I from tutorial on dev.and.com and made a TabLayout and for the moment I also have a LinearLayout for my questions
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout android:id="#+id/LinearLayout01"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
>
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="2dp">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/text_large"
android:textSize="16sp">
</TextView>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/text_small"
android:textSize="12sp">
</TextView>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="2dp"
android:gravity="right">
<CheckBox
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/checkBxc">
</CheckBox>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Same is going to be for all of groups.
Code for tabLayout is like here
And AgroupActivity just displays a line of text right now (for testing purposes).
How can I make my layout to look like a list in each tab I have? Or maybe there are some other possibilities? As I understood, a simple ListView can't have anything(checkboxes in my case) in its tag?
You could use ListView to display a layout look like a list in each tabs.
With each tab content you use a ListView for each tab:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ListView android:id="#+id/android:list"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>
And custom row (your_custom_row.xml) for each rows in ListView:
<TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<TableRow
android:gravity="left"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/row_textview1"
android:textSize="25sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:lines="1"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/row_textview2"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="right"
android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:lines="1"/>
</TableRow>
</TableLayout>
and use Adapter to bind data to your ListView.

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