Android custom layout

Question

I spent sometime yesterday struggling with android layouts (... or better custom layouts). For general purposes forms the out of the box layouts that androids offers are mor

Answer 1

The available documentation on custom layouts seems rather vague to me, but I finally found something useful: Here is a nice simple sample layout that shows how to connect XML and Java code: How to layout a 'grid' of images in the center of the screen And here is a post which explains one key issue I was missing: http://www.arpitonline.com/blog/2012/07/01/creating-custom-layouts-for-android/. Apparently one has to override onMeasure and call measure() for each child.