Question

as the title means, I want my tablelayout to evenly assign each column’s width and the child of each column be centered inside the column. Setting android:stretchColumns="*" also, however, streches the child inside each column.

any ideas for hacking this issue?

using horizontal Linearlayout to imitate a tablerow is acceptable, but I also have no idea how to get a Linearlayout to arrange its children evenly 🙁

pls help,
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

No hack needed. 🙂
Simply set the layout_width of the children to wrap_content instead of fill_parent, or to a fixed value. Set layout_gravity to center or center_horizontal.

EDIT: Code added.

Try this:

<TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
             android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
             android:shrinkColumns="*" android:stretchColumns="*">
    <TableRow>
        <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/hello"
                android:gravity="center"
                />
        <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/hello"
                android:gravity="center"
                />
        <TextView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/hello"
                android:gravity="center"
                />
    </TableRow>
</TableLayout>