Question

I’m developping an android application. For that I need to have a dynamic tableView. I’m using TableLayout for that which is available in android. But I couldn’t find a way to have multiple columns in my tableView. Any option please?

Answer 1

I don’t know if I fully understand your question, but here:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    TableLayout tableLayout = new TableLayout(getApplicationContext());
    TableRow tableRow;
    TextView textView;

    for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
        tableRow = new TableRow(getApplicationContext());
        for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++) {
            textView = new TextView(getApplicationContext());
            textView.setText("test");
            textView.setPadding(20, 20, 20, 20);
            tableRow.addView(textView);
        }
        tableLayout.addView(tableRow);
    }
    setContentView(tableLayout);
}

This code creates TableLayout with 3 columns and 4 rows. Basically you can have TableLayout declared in XML file, then setContentView to XML, and use findViewById to find your TableLayout. Only TableRow and it’s children have to be done in java code.