Question

I have a simple sign in tablelayout, but the contents inside are stretching too far to the right. Everything appears to me to be centered. Or it seems like the EditText is trying to center itself inside the main parent and not IT’S parent tablelayout. Any idea why?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="@drawable/bluebg"
android:id="@+id/loading_page_lin_layout"
>
 <TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@drawable/roundtable"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:layout_margin="10dip"
        android:padding="10dip"
        android:stretchColumns="*">
        <TableRow>
            <EditText  
            android:id="@+id/txtUserName"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:textColor="#85AFBE"                              
            android:hint="Email"
            android:text=""
            android:gravity="left"

            />
         </TableRow>
        <TableRow>
            <EditText  
                android:id="@+id/txtPassword"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:textColor="#85AFBE"                              
                android:text=""
                android:hint="Password"
                android:password="true"
                android:gravity="left"  
                android:layout_gravity="center"                     
                />
        </TableRow>
        <TableRow>
            <!--  <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnSignIn"
            android:text="Sign In" 
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:paddingTop="10dip"
            android:gravity="center"
            />-->
            <ImageButton 
             android:id="@+id/btnSignIn"
             android:src="@drawable/signbig"    
             android:scaleType="fitCenter"   
             android:layout_width="wrap_content"
             android:layout_height="wrap_content"                
             android:adjustViewBounds="true"
             android:layout_marginLeft="3dip"
             android:background="@null"
             android:layout_marginRight="3dip"
             android:layout_gravity="center"
             />
        </TableRow>
        <TableRow>
            <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnSignUp"
            android:background="@null"
            android:text="Sign Up" 
            android:textStyle=""
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:paddingTop="10dip"
            android:textSize="20dip"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:onClick="SendToSignUp"
            />                          
        </TableRow> 
        <TableRow>
            <Button
               android:id="@+id/btnFillData"
               android:text="Fill Fake Data" 
               android:background="@null"
               android:layout_width="wrap_content"
               android:layout_height="wrap_content"
               android:paddingTop="10dip"
               android:gravity="center"
               android:onClick="FillFakeData"
               />
           </TableRow>
</TableLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

Your table layout has it’s width set to “wrap_content” and it’s children have it at “fill_parent”, not one of them knows anything exactly 🙂 Set your table layout’s width to “fill_parent” and everything should lay out as you mean it to.

UPD
I only see one column in your table. That means you can safely substitute it with vertical LinearLayout.