How to reduce the space around rating bar in android

Question

I have included a rating bar in android, and now I need to place a text view to immediate right if the rating bar.But I failed to do the same since, there is a lot of unwant

Answer 1

While using the base style for the RatingBar, set the minHeight to 0dp. The base minHeight in the style itself was preventing the view from scaling down. Setting it to 0 should work as you expect a normal view (we set ours to wrap_content).

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Tried to use the base (@android:style/Widget.RatingBar) and small (@android:style/Widget.DeviceDefault.RatingBar.Small and @android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.RatingBar.Small) but both fixed/limited the size of the the RatingBar regardless of what icon is used. Looking at their codes, it was no surprise.

Setting the scales didn't work right either.