tablelayout

I have two TableLayouts, one above the other, in my View. I want them to act as a single table for the purpose of calculating column widths, but appear separately with a gap between them (and the main View background showing through) for aesthetic reasons. Each table has 3 columns, and I want the column widths sized automatically depending on content, but I just want the columns to line up nicely with the same widths in both tables. At the moment my tables look like this: +---------------------------+ | | | | | | | | +---------------------------+ +---------------------------+ | | | | | | | | |

I'm unsure as to what the differences between the two of them are and which I should use for my purpouses? What I'm trying to do is create a custom virtual numpad with text inputs and that can dynamically change its contents to have a date picker. So I need a layout system which supports many different sized cells inside it. Which better suits my needs and what's the difference? In my experience I had both GridLayout and TableLayout give me the same results. They both seem to stretch the columns to fit the widest child element. Neither will give you gird lines or borders around the cells. From

I am creating a Android app. This Android App will have objects that are dynamic. These objects are Places with a Address or Lat/Long, and distance from current location, and a ETA. What I would like to do is add with objects on a TableLayout with borders, but I need to be able to dynamically add rows as the number of places increase. I understand somewhat how to do this for a fixed hardcoded number of items on the xml, but what would be the best way when the number of objects is coming from the Activity.java file? Below is a screenshot of the TableLayout I would like: So the object would be a

Let's say my columns in a table are id , name , description , and phone . The description column is 1-255 characters, but the id is only max 3 characters. I'd like the columns to be appropriately sized rather than each column being the same size. And I'd like the description column to overflow to an ellipsis when the window is too small to fit the contents in its entirety. table-layout:fixed; is the standard way to make text-overflow: ellipsis; work, but it resizes all the columns to the same size. I'd prefer to keep the widths auto rather than fixed. Can you help? Here's my jsFiddle : http:/

How to apply row_span to TableLayout? I want to make something similar to this image, but i don't know how to do it. What is the correct way to make something like this? TableLayout does not support row spans, only column spans. GridLayout supports both row and column spans: (picture from http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/11/new-layout-widgets-space-and-gridlayout.html ) Little cheating (maybe quite complex to code and only valid for a simple design): Make a TableLayout . Put another TableLayout inside the first column and a view that you want to have the rowspan in the second column