Question

I’ve tried this code:

<?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">

     <LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal"
          android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
          android:layout_height="fill_parent"
          android:layout_weight="1">

          <ListView 
                android:id="@+id/List1" 
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
                android:layout_weight="1" />

          <ListView 
                android:id="@+id/List2" 
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
                android:layout_weight="1" />

          <ListView 
                android:id="@+id/List3" 
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
                android:layout_weight="1" />

          <ListView 
                android:id="@+id/List4" 
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
                android:layout_weight="1" />
     </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

With no success. This works, but I don’t want to divide the x screen for all lists, I want to extend the width of every list and make it possible to scroll on x axis …
Does anyone know if I can do this ?

Answer 1

It’s possible. In your case it does not work because the android:layout_width is set to fill_parent, thus the first layout will take all the available space. Try giving android:layout_weight="1" to each ListView. And remove the inner LinearLayouts which are no necessary.

This worked for me:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     android:orientation="horizontal"
     android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
     android:layout_height="fill_parent"
     android:layout_weight="1">

     <ListView 
          android:id="@+id/List1" 
          android:layout_width="fill_parent"
          android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
          android:layout_weight="1" />

     <ListView 
          android:id="@+id/List2" 
          android:layout_width="fill_parent"
          android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
          android:layout_weight="1" />
</LinearLayout>

I just took your code and remove two of the lists views: