Heterogeneous GridLayout
UPDATE - my working solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21233824/902172 I am trying to implement the layout below: I guess GridLayout is suitable for my needs but after 2 hours of struggle I couldn't create even a similar layout.. The layout is resizing itself wrongly , it exceeds the screen of the phone and it also does not span the specified rows and columns. Here I selected a button so you can see how it exceeds the boundaries: and here is the associated xml code: https://gist.github.com/2834492 I have reached a similar layout with nested linearlayouts but it's not possible to properly