Question

I am having two table rows in one of my activity. First row will always contains 2 textview and second might contains one or two textview (it depends on userinput). Whenever I am having one textview in 2nd row, I tried to span it to two columns. I am trying something this

TableRow.LayoutParams param = (LayoutParams)editText.getLayoutParams();
param.span = 2;
txtView.setLayoutParams(param);

But its not working. What happens is, second txtview in first row is pushed out of the screen. So can anyone here tell where i am making mistake?

Answer 1

I made this example, hope it helps you.

 TableLayout table = (TableLayout)findViewById(R.id.table_id_in_xml);
    TableRow row = new TableRow(this);
    TableRow row2 = new TableRow(this);
    TextView col1, col2, col3;        

    row.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
    row2.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));

    col1 = new TextView(this);
    col2 = new TextView(this);
    col3 = new TextView(this);

    col1.setText("col1");
    col2.setText("col2");
    col3.setText("col3");

    row.addView(col1);
    row.addView(col2);
    row.addView(col3);

    table.addView(row, new TableLayout.LayoutParams( LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));

    //HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED
    TableRow.LayoutParams params = (TableRow.LayoutParams) row2.getLayoutParams();
    params.span = 3; //amount of columns you will span

    col1 = new TextView(this);

    col1.setText("span on col1 makes it bigger than the others");
    col1.setLayoutParams(params);
    row2.addView(col1);

    table.addView(row2, new TableLayout.LayoutParams( LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));