Margin on ListView items in android

Question

I\'m trying (in vain) to add margins to my ListView items. I have tried adding margin values to my RelativeLayout below but no matter what I do all I seem to get is a 1px li

Answer 1

See the answer here for why. In short the child asks the parent, and the list view row uses AbsListView.LayoutParams, which doesn't include margins.

Why LinearLayout's margin is being ignored if used as ListView row view