Android Table Layout Alignment

I am using Table Layout to display data as shown below. What i want to do ? I want the Text in the second column to be aligned to the left and the text should wrap and be displaye

Solution 1:

Since a TableRow is pretty much a horizontally oriented LinearLayout, simply use the principles of weights to make the TextView fill up all the space after the ImageView. It means you'd have to change the rows to somewhat like this:

<!-- no need to set width/height as those are implicitly enforced --><TableRowandroid:id="@+id/tableRow2"android:paddingBottom="10dp" ><ImageViewandroid:id="@+id/place_category_icon"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:contentDescription="ss"android:paddingRight="10dp"android:src="@drawable/icon_category" /><!-- width of '0' and weight of '1' will make this view fill up all remaining space --><TextViewandroid:id="@+id/textView2"android:layout_width="0dp"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_weight="1"android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"android:text="230 kms"android:textSize="16sp" /></TableRow>

I've also removed/changed some superfluous attributes. Do mind that I just typed this directly in the browser - there may be the odd typo or tweak required.

Solution 2:

The easiest way I can think of is to wrap each TableRow content with a LinearLayout like this:

<TableLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:id="@+id/tableLayout1"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent" ><TableRowandroid:id="@+id/tableRow2"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:paddingBottom="10dp" ><LinearLayoutandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="match_parent" ><ImageViewandroid:id="@+id/place_category_icon"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_centerVertical="true"android:contentDescription="ss"android:paddingRight="10dp"android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" /><TextViewandroid:id="@+id/textView2"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_centerVertical="true"android:layout_gravity="center"android:text="230 kms"android:textSize="16sp" ></TextView></LinearLayout></TableRow><TableRowandroid:id="@+id/tableRow2"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:paddingBottom="10dp" ><LinearLayoutandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="match_parent" ><ImageViewandroid:id="@+id/place_category_icon"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_centerVertical="true"android:contentDescription="ss"android:paddingRight="10dp"android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" /><TextViewandroid:id="@+id/textView2"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_centerVertical="true"android:layout_gravity="center"android:text="Hill Station, Wild Life"android:textSize="16sp" ></TextView></LinearLayout></TableRow><TableRowandroid:id="@+id/tableRow2"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:paddingBottom="10dp" ><LinearLayoutandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="match_parent" ><ImageViewandroid:id="@+id/place_category_icon"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_centerVertical="true"android:contentDescription="ss"android:paddingRight="10dp"android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" /><TextViewandroid:id="@+id/textView2"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_centerVertical="true"android:layout_gravity="center"android:text="Summer 23-40°C, Winter 10-32°C"android:textSize="16sp" ></TextView></LinearLayout></TableRow><TableRowandroid:id="@+id/tableRow2"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:paddingBottom="10dp" ><LinearLayoutandroid:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="match_parent" ><ImageViewandroid:id="@+id/place_category_icon"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_centerVertical="true"android:contentDescription="ss"android:paddingRight="10dp"android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher" /><TextViewandroid:id="@+id/textView2"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_centerVertical="true"android:layout_gravity="center"android:text="Tippus Drop, Tippus Summer Residence, Brahmashram, Cycling, Paragliding"android:textSize="16sp" ></TextView></LinearLayout></TableRow></TableLayout>

And this is the result:

Hope I correctly understood your requirements.

Solution 3:

My guess - change the layout_width and get rid of the gravity:

<TextViewandroid:id="@+id/textView2"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_centerVertical="true"...
            ></TextView>