Question

I’m creating a list view in Android where each row is shown with LinearLayout. The problem that I have is that since the text is different in each line, it isn’t aligned in the same way. See for e.g. the “Date” – in different position on each line. What is the best way to create such a view?

Thanks in advance,

Noam

Answer 1

This is the same problem why browsers are slow with showing tables with variable width: you have to calculate the widths after you’ve parsed all content.

• The quickest way is to manually assign a size (width) to your columns.
• If you really can’t do that because your content is very unpredictable (are you sure?) you could try and find out what the sizes should be from all your content, and then award the sizes.