Question

i have a couple list items. one works, the other one doesn’t, and they both look fairly identical. this really should be a game of “spot the difference” in the XML files but i can’t, for the life of me, figure out what’s wrong. one of the list items is perfect and the other refuses to justify some of the Views on the right side of the layout, as indicated in the xml. here’s what they each look like with code included.

^ list_view_item_2.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
    android:padding="5dp">
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/item_text_product"
        android:textSize="20sp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="0dp"/>
    <TableLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
        <TableRow>
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/item_text_total"
                android:gravity="right"
                android:textStyle="bold"
                android:layout_span="2"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>
        </TableRow>
        <TableRow>
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/item_text_units"
                android:gravity="right"
                android:textStyle="bold"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/item_text_uom"
                android:gravity="right"
                android:textStyle="bold"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>
        </TableRow>
        <TableRow>
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/text_acog"
                android:text="COG:"
                android:gravity="right"
                android:textStyle="bold"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/item_text_acog"
                android:paddingLeft="1sp"
                android:gravity="right"
                android:textStyle="bold"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>
        </TableRow>
    </TableLayout>
</LinearLayout>

This next layout is the one that works.

^ inventory_child_item.xml:
and the code looks identical, for the most part…

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
    android:padding="5dp">
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/ici_site"
        android:textSize="20sp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="0dp"/>
    <TableLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
        <TableRow>
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/ici_units"
                android:gravity="right"
                android:textStyle="bold"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/ici_uom"
                android:paddingLeft="1sp"
                android:gravity="right"
                android:textStyle="bold"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>
        </TableRow>
        <TableRow>
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/ici_total"
                android:gravity="right"
                android:textStyle="bold"
                android:layout_span="2"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>
        </TableRow>
        <TableRow>
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/ici_price"
                android:gravity="right"
                android:textStyle="bold"
                android:layout_span="2"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>
        </TableRow>
    </TableLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

You need to set match_parent to ListView

like:

android:layout_width="match_parent"