android expandablelistview how to set space between groups items

Question

I have expandablelistview and I want to add padding (or margin) between the groups items, I used margin-botton on the group items, it works but now it is also a

Answer 1

I was having the same kind of problem so i came up with a childish solution. What i did was i added to linear layout with same properties both in parent layout file and child layout file of expandable list view. And when a group is clicked i made the 'linear layout' of parent layout file invisible and my work was done.

Group Layout File

Child Layout File

To hide the linear layout when any group is clicked Add this line into addChildView method in the adapter class

lv.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

here lv contains the id of the linear layout

linear_parent_faq

of group layout file.