Is there anyway to set the no of row in GridView Android

Question

May be i am asking wrong question. But please guys help me out. i want to display images in Grid View format. I have 5 images now i want to display these images like this(in single row scroll able).

image1  image2 image3  image4  image5

But in mobile we can display 2 or 3 at a time. Can we set the number of rows in Grid View like numColumn:2? Thanks for considering.

Answer 1

If you need to display a fixed number of images (for example using ImageView) horizontally, the best solution is using HorizontalScrollView with a single horizontal LinearLayout child, which will contain the images. It will look something like this:

<HorizontalScrollView android:layout_width="match_parent"
                      android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <LinearLayout android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                  android:orientation="horizontal">
        <ImageView ...
                   ... />
        <ImageView ...
                   ... />
        ...
    </LinearLayout>
</HorizontalScrollView>

Answer 2

GridView is not really designed for this purpose, it is designed to display an indefinite amount of data in an efficient scrolling manner. If you want to create a static layout where you can discretely place items at specific locations, you should be looking at GridLayout or TableLayout instead.

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