Question

I am having trouble getting a RelativeLayout to work within a ListView. If I change the layout to linear etc. I see it behave as I would expect but the RelativeLayout is scrunching everything up into overlapping space. Now my uneducated guess is that it is trying to cram everything into on row. I thought it would expand that row but perhaps not or that is not the problem.

Note my code has been abbreviated for space.

Anyway in my Parent XML:

<LinearLayout ..._width="fill_parent" ..._height="fill_parent" ...orientation="vertical" >
    <ListView ...layout_width="fill_parent" ...layout_height="fill_parent" />
</LinearLayout>

So my thought was that this would fill the device screen and in the GraphicalLayout view in Eclipse it appears that it does.

My "row" definition for the ListView is this:

<RelativeLayout width="fill_parent" height="fill_parent" >

    <ImageView
       android:layout_width="60dp"
        android:layout_height="30dp"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="5dp" />
      .....
</RelativeLayout>

As mentioned I thought this would fill all available space but it seems to only fill some sort of "default" row height?

What am I missing?

Answer 1

I ended up overriding the getView of the ArrayAdapter and then setting the height and width to the dynamically determined screen size

…snip….

int[] iarry_ScrnDim = new int[2];

DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
metrics = ctx_Currnt.getResources().getDisplayMetrics();

iarry_ScrnDim[0] = metrics.heightPixels;
iarry_ScrnDim[1] = metrics.widthPixels;

return iarry_ScrnDim;

….snip….

if (vw_BigRow == null)
{
    LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    vw_BigRow = inflater.inflate(R.layout.liftdatalayout, null);
}

vw_BigRow.setMinimumHeight(mHeight);
vw_BigRow.setMinimumWidth(mWidth);