Question

I am having trouble with this for some reason… The column with the “name” shouldn’t take up as much space as it does. The column does not wrap the text. The setup below is what I’ve been using and it has worked previously. What am I missing? Could there be something up with Eclipse?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:fadingEdgeLength="100dp">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TableLayout
android:id="@+id/tableLayout1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#333333"
android:stretchColumns="*">
<TableRow android:layout_margin="1dp" android:background="#333333" android:gravity="center">
<TextView
android:gravity="center"
android:padding="3dip"
android:text="Friends"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:textSize="22dp" />
</TableRow>
<TableRow android:layout_margin="1dp" android:background="#000000">
<TextView
android:gravity="left"
android:padding="3dip"
android:text="Name"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:textSize="15dp" />
<TextView
android:gravity="left"
android:padding="3dip"
android:text="Address"
android:textColor="#66cccc"
android:textSize="15dp" />
<TextView
android:gravity="left"
android:padding="3dip"
android:text="Interests"
android:textColor="#006666"
android:textSize="15dp" />
</TableRow> 
<TableRow android:layout_margin="1dp" android:background="#000000">
<TextView
android:gravity="left"
android:padding="3dip"
android:text="This is short"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:textSize="13dp"
android:width="0dip"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
<TextView
android:gravity="left"
android:padding="3dip"
android:text="This is some text that might be too long and might need to wrap to the next line."
android:textColor="#cc0033"
android:textSize="13dp"
android:width="0dip"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#222222" />
<TextView
android:gravity="left"
android:padding="3dip"
android:text="This is some text that will be long so it needs to wrap and go to the next line blah blah blah."
android:textColor="#99cc00"
android:textSize="13dp"
android:width="0dip"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
</TableRow>
</TableLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

Answer 1

From the docs:

The children of a TableRow do not need to specify the layout_width and layout_height attributes in the XML file. TableRow always enforces those values to be respectively MATCH_PARENT and WRAP_CONTENT.

That might be causing some problems although the wording of that suggests to me that it should ignore your settings anyway and just overwrite them. Still, it might be worth getting rid of your layout_width and layout_height attributes in those TextViews in your TableRows and seeing if it helps.

Update:

Just noticed you have stretchColumns set to *. Change it to 1,2.