Android TableLayout Width

Question

I have a two column TableLayout as the only child of a scroll view. The first column contains TextViews (\'labels\') and the second column contains

Answer 1

The pragmatic way to solve this is to use the stretchColumns and shrinkColumns attributes in TableLayout. Their values should be 0-based indexes of columns.

For example, if you have a two column Table layout and:

• You would like the second column to fill up with empty space (stretch) so the TableLayout fits the entire parent view on a large screen device
• You would like the first column to be shrunk (and its contents possibly wrapped / ellipsized) on a small screen device

you would define your TableLayout as: