How to make RatingBar to show five stars

Question

I am following the standard example of how to add a RatingBar. To control the number of stars I tried to use android:numStars=\"5\". The problem is

Answer 1

I found that the RatingBar stretched to a maximum number of stars because it was enclosed in a Table with the attribute android:stretchColumns = "*".

Once I took stretchCoulumns off all columns, the RatingBar displayed according to the android:numStars value