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In this tutorial, we show you how to use TableLayout to arrange button, textview and edittext in rows and columns format. In Eclipse 3.7, XML code assist will not prompts the attribute "android:layout_span", "android.layout_column", no idea why, may be bug. Just put the attribute inside, it's still compile and run.

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Android Tablelayout Example

In this tutorial, we show you how to use TableLayout to arrange button, textview and edittext in rows and columns format. In Eclipse 3.7, XML code assist will not prompts the attribute "android:layout_span", "android.layout_column", no idea why, may be bug. Just put the attribute inside, it's still compile and run.

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Published: December 20, 2011 , Updated: January 12, 2012 , Author: mkyong

In Android, TableLayout let you arranges components in rows and columns, just like the standard table layout in HTML, <tr> and <td>. In this tutorial, we show you how to use TableLayout to arrange button, textview and edittext in rows and columns format, and also demonstrates the use of android:layout_span to span view in 2 cells, and android:layout_column to display the view in specified column.

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In Eclipse 3.7, XML code assist will not prompts the attribute android:layout_span, android:layout_column and many other useful TableLayout attributes, no idea why, may be bug. Just put the attribute inside, its still compile and run.

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P.S This project is developed in Eclipse 3.7, and tested with Android 2.3.3.

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Open res/layout/main.xml file, add following views for demonstration. Read the XML comments, it should be self-explanatory.

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File : res/layout/main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:id="@+id/tableLayout1" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" > <!-- 2 columns --> <TableRow android:id="@+id/tableRow1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:padding="5dip" > <TextView android:id="@+id/textView1" android:text="Column 1" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" /> <Button android:id="@+id/button1" android:text="Column 2" /> </TableRow> <!-- edittext span 2 column --> <TableRow android:id="@+id/tableRow2" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:padding="5dip" >

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<EditText android:id="@+id/editText1" android:layout_span="2" android:text="Column 1 &amp; 2" /> </TableRow> <!-- just draw a red line --> <View android:layout_height="2dip" android:background="#FF0000" /> <!-- 3 columns --> <TableRow android:id="@+id/tableRow3" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:padding="5dip" > <TextView android:id="@+id/textView2" android:text="Column 1" android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" /> <Button android:id="@+id/button2" android:text="Column 2" /> <Button android:id="@+id/button3" android:text="Column 3" /> </TableRow> <!-- display this button in 3rd column via layout_column(zero based) --> <TableRow android:id="@+id/tableRow4" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:padding="5dip" > <Button android:id="@+id/button4" android:layout_column="2" android:text="Column 3" /> </TableRow> <!-- display this button in 2nd column via layout_column(zero based) --> <TableRow android:id="@+id/tableRow5" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:padding="5dip" > <Button android:id="@+id/button5" android:layout_column="1" android:text="Column 2" /> </TableRow> </TableLayout>

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manohar says:
January 7, 2012 at 6:33 pm

one more thing when ever design a screen first use scrollview layout and then add your layouts to it.it makes your screen scrollable even you turn your mobile into landscape
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mkyong says:
January 16, 2012 at 10:19 pm

Nice tips. Thanks ~


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manohar says:
January 7, 2012 at 6:31 pm

instead of using table layout go through the relative layout otherwise absolute layout
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