Android layout not showing properly - android

I'm writing an android app and in it I want to have a sort of title bar including the name of the game, the score, and things like that. Then below that I want to have an grid of image views, which will kind of be like tiles on which I can display different characters in my game.
I have the following xml layout, but when I run it and I get a black screen:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView android:id="#+id/title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="#string/app_name"
/>
<TextView android:id="#+id/score"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="#string/score"
/>
<TextView android:id="#+id/score"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="0"
/>
<TextView android:id="#+id/robotsLeft"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="#string/robots"
/>
<TextView android:id="#+id/score"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="0"
/>
</LinearLayout>
<GridView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/gridview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:columnWidth="90dp"
android:numColumns="auto_fit"
android:verticalSpacing="10dp"
android:horizontalSpacing="10dp"
android:stretchMode="columnWidth"
android:gravity="center"
/>
GridView is initialized as per this tutorial:
http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-gridview.html
ie. in my main activity's onCreate():
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
GridView gridview = (GridView) findViewById(R.id.gridview);
gridview.setAdapter(new ImageAdapter(this));
Can anyone see anything I've done wrong?
Thanks!

Well, that's invalid XML, because there's no root element. Also, all of your TextView widgets have android:layout_height="fill_parent", which is rather strange. You might also consider using hierarchyviewer to examine your layout more closely and see what else may be going wrong.

you should put a (linear)layout underneath them, as your xml is invalid.

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I am trying to create a grid layout of cards similar to what is used in google play like this
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xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity"
android:background="#e5e5e5"
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android:layout_width="fill_parent"
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android:columnWidth="60dp"
android:numColumns="2"
android:layout_marginLeft="2dp"
android:verticalSpacing="10dp"
android:horizontalSpacing="10dp"
android:stretchMode="columnWidth"
android:gravity="center"
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/bg_card"
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android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
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The output that I get is this:
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The issues that i am facing are:
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google play store. How do i make the card be propotional to the
image. The amount of white space changes with change in image size.
The card is "stuck" to the left edge of the screen . How do i keep spacing between the edge of the screen and the card.
Please help me in rectifying this issue.
Thanks
Space are bacause you used
android:verticalSpacing="10dp"
android:horizontalSpacing="10dp"
Also edit your
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imgIcon"
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_height="300dp"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
/>
in gridview use
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I'm trying to show a list of images in a GridView, and I want to crop only the center of the images in this list. So below is the layout of each image item:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
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This is weird because the images are all cropped in a strange way like that. Below is one of my original images:
I've never encountered this problem so if any of you are familiar with this, please help me find the reason of this. Thank you!
P.s: I guess this can only be the problem of the xml layout so I don't think it is necessary to include my android source code here. But if it really is, please let me know where the problem may come from and I'll edit this question with my code.
The reason is GridView clears all the layout params set for the tiles and it set its own layout params so better you add your ImageView inside a RelativeLayout. This is the same with all the AdapterView like ListView,Gallery etc.

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In other words, I have a layout like this one:
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android:orientation="vertical"
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android:layout_height="fill_parent"
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android:layout_marginTop="2dip"
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android:textSize="16dip"
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include GridView in linearlayout,then i's work as you like.

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