Question

Trying to create a black line in my view to separate text blocks but its not showing up.
The text shows up as it should but i don’t see the line.

EDIT:
Have tested to add both dynamically as suggested and also to modify my code but still no line? Am i missing something?

Also this is inside a Fragment, class extends Fragment {}

Xml code:

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

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/travelContainer"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical" >
    </LinearLayout>

</ScrollView>

Java code:

    public class Travel extends Fragment {
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
        Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    return inflater.inflate(R.layout.travel_fragment, container, false);
}


@Override
public void onViewCreated(View view, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onViewCreated(view, savedInstanceState);

LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout)view.findViewById(R.id.travelContainer);

        TextView text = new TextView(getActivity()); 
        int padding = (int)TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP,4, getActivity().getResources().getDisplayMetrics()); 
        text.setPadding(padding, padding, padding, padding);
        text.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, 12);
        text.setTypeface(null, Typeface.BOLD);
        text.setText("TITLE");
        text.setId(123456789);
        layout.addView(text); 

        /* 
    View v = new View(getActivity());
    LinearLayout.LayoutParams viewLp = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,1);
    viewLp.setMargins(0, 5, 0, 5);
    v.setLayoutParams(viewLp);
    v.setBackgroundColor(0x000);
            */

    View v = getActivity().getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.line, (ViewGroup)getActivity().getCurrentFocus(), false);
    layout.addView(v);


        text = new TextView(getActivity()); 
        padding = (int)TypedValue.applyDimension(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_DIP,4, getActivity().getResources().getDisplayMetrics()); 
        text.setPadding(padding, padding, padding, padding);
        text.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, 10);       
        text.setText("Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.");
        layout.addView(text); 
}
}

Answer 1

Do you need to create the View programatically?

An easy approach is creating a View with following attributes

<View
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="1dp"
    android:background="#000" />

If you create a new XML file called line.xml you can use a LayoutInflater to get the view dynamically:

View line = MyActivity.this.getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.line, (ViewGroup) getCurrentFocus(), false);

This version will result in a much cleaner code as the system does all the work for you.