Question

So I’m trying to put a LinearLayout that has two TextViews inside of a ListView but I’m having trouble and the program keeps crashing with what I’ve tried. The ListView would just have one element. The xml for my Linear Layout is as follows:

<ListView>
<LinearLayout
    android:orientation="vertical" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:drawablePadding="14dip"
    android:paddingLeft="15dip"
    android:paddingRight="15dip">
        <TextView 
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"/>
        <TextView 
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"/>
</LinearLayout>
</ListView>

How do I get this inside of a listview? When I try putting it in a listview, I get an error on the phone saying Sorry! The application has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. The stacktrace is below.

I/dalvikvm( 1692): Debugger thread not active, ignoring DDM send (t=0x41504e4d l=38)
I/dalvikvm( 1692): Debugger thread not active, ignoring DDM send (t=0x41504e4d l=56)
D/AndroidRuntime( 1692): Shutting down VM
W/dalvikvm( 1692): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001b170)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.acme.activeisclickable/com.acme.activeisclickable.ActiveIsClickable}: java.lang.RuntimeException: Binary XML file line #14: You must supply a layout_width attribute.
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2496)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2512)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2200(ActivityThread.java:119)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at  android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1863)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4363)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Binary XML file line #14: You must supply a layout_width attribute.
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.content.res.TypedArray.getLayoutDimension(TypedArray.java:438)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams.setBaseAttributes(ViewGroup.java:3463)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.view.ViewGroup$MarginLayoutParams.<init>(ViewGroup.java:3543)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.widget.LinearLayout$LayoutParams.<init>(LinearLayout.java:1265)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.widget.LinearLayout.generateLayoutParams(LinearLayout.java:1191)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.widget.LinearLayout.generateLayoutParams(LinearLayout.java:45)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:620)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:407)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:276)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.setContentView(PhoneWindow.java:198)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.app.Activity.setContentView(Activity.java:1622)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at com.acme.activeisclickable.ActiveIsClickable.onCreate(ActiveIsClickable.java:35)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2459)
E/AndroidRuntime( 1692):        ... 11 more
I/Process ( 1275): Sending signal. PID: 1692 SIG: 3
I/dalvikvm( 1692): threadid=7: reacting to signal 3
I/dalvikvm( 1692): Wrote stack trace to '/data/anr/traces.txt'

Answer 1

I assume you are trying to customize the list items. You should write your own custom adapter to do that. Try this tutorial or you can check out these videos:

1. Presenting your data in a ListView
2. Transitioning to ListActivity
3. Beautify your List: Get it working
4. Beautify your List: Rigth way to do it

DISCLOSURE: I’m the author of the above mentioned videos.