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achie
achie

Reputation: 4746

How to set the GridView or GridLayout to fill the height of the screen and force all the rows to be of equal height

I have a few views that I have to place in a 4 x 6 grid. Each of the views should have the same width w and same height h and fill the screen. What I want is to use GridLayout or GridView to draw these.

I know that I can use the stretchMode = "columnWidth" in GridView which sets equal width to each of its children. I also want it to set equal height and fill the screen vertically.

Can I achieve this by using any of GridView or if not possible then GridLayout? I am looking for GridView before switching to LinearLayouts and using weights because I have custom views as the grid items and I would love to use adapters rather than coding for each element.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2409

Answers (2)

achie
achie

Reputation: 4746

I did a custom layout which extends linear layout. I found that for my case this is a better approach and I had more control over all the touch events on the layout and the children themselves.

Upvotes: 0

keyboardr
keyboardr

Reputation: 851

You can still use Adapters with LinearLayouts or TableLayout, you just have to add the views programatically and call the getView() method yourself. GridView is more meant for a dynamic number of items and handles its own scrolling.

This can be done using something like this in your onCreateView() or whatever:

mAdapter = new FooAdapter();
mList = (LinearLayout) v.findViewById(R.id.list);
for(int i = 0; i< mAdapter.getCount(); i++){
    View child = mAdapter.getView(i, null, mList);
    mList.addView(child);
}

If you are possibly just changing the data, passing the old views as convertViews may speed things up.

Upvotes: 1

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