Question

I have a TableLayout with 3 rows at present and each row has one child, a TextView. My problem is that the TextViews widths do not "match_parent" as they should. I have followed the procedure of not defining heights and widths for them(like the documentation says) but for some reason the problem is still there.

I have opened up the hierarchyviewer and had a look at the values, the TableRow fills the width as it should but the TextView does not fill the row, it is just wrapping the content. The full xml layout is below, does anybody have any ideas?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TableRow
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">   
    <TextView
        android:background="@drawable/textlines"
        android:text="@string/text1_string"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:padding="5dp">
    </TextView>
</TableRow>
<TableRow
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">   
    <TextView
        android:background="@drawable/textlines"
        android:text="@string/text1_string"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:padding="5dp">
    </TextView>
</TableRow>
<TableRow
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">   
    <TextView
        android:background="@drawable/textlines"
        android:text="@string/text1_string"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:padding="5dp">
    </TextView>
</TableRow>
</TableLayout>

Also I’ll include the xml file for the @drawable/textlines. Perhaps the problem is in there? (The textlines code is taken from a solution provided on here concerning a question about borders) I pretty much understand it and I don’t think it should affect my problem but I could be wrong. Anyway, here it is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item>
  <shape 
    android:shape="rectangle">
        <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#FF000000" />
        <solid android:color="#FFDDDDDD" />

    </shape>
</item>

<item android:top="1dp" android:bottom="1dp"> 
  <shape 
    android:shape="rectangle">
        <stroke android:width="1dp" android:color="#FFDDDDDD" />
        <solid android:color="#00000000" />
    </shape>
</item>
</layer-list>

Answer 1

I don’t know why that happens but you could avoid that issue either by adding:

android:layout_weight="1"

to your children TextViews, or by adding:

android:stretchColumns="0"

to your parent TableLayout.