Question

I would like my list view items to be lined up and appear as tabular data. I have four TextViews in each ListItem. I have the 1st and 4th even on the edges. I can not get the middle to line up. Is there a better way to do this?

 <?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="40dp"
  android:background="@color/row_selector"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
 android:paddingRight="5dp"
android:paddingBottom="10dp"
android:paddingTop="10dp" >
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/labelGas"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_weight="25"
    android:text="@+id/label"
    android:textColor="#222"
     >
</TextView>
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/labelDate"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_weight="15"
    android:text="@+id/label"
    android:textColor="#222"
    >
</TextView>
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/labelApr"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_weight="35"
    android:text="@+id/label"
    android:textSize="18dp" >
</TextView>
<TextView
    android:id="@+id/labelFee"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_weight="5"
    android:text="@+id/label"
   >
</TextView>
 </LinearLayout>

Answer 1

If you set android:layout_width="0dp" for all the TextView tags, then the views will have widths exactly according to the weights, regardless of their actual content.