Question

what I want is like a gridView where every item could have its own width. Like in html if you just add a lot of span items inside a div block, the div will just grow as necessary to fit them.

Is there something already built for this purpose or should I try and create my own AbsListView implementation?

Answer 1

No, there is no such widget in Android.

Note that you would only extend AbsListView if you wanted individual items in the widget to be selectable. If you simply want a “flow layout”, you would extend ViewGroup and create your own custom layout manager. There might already be an implementation of a “flow layout” available somewhere — people have asked about it for a long time.