Android 0 Basics 29th: Use tablelayout form layout

The linear layout and relative layout, while the linear layout is convenient, is difficult to meet if the control needs to be arranged neatly, and it is cumbersome to use relative layout, which provides table layout for this Android system.

I. Understanding Tablelayout

The table layout is to let the control arrange the controls in a tabular form, as long as the controls are placed in the cell, the controls can be neatly arranged, using the Tablelayout label.

Tablelayout inherits the LinearLayout, so its essence remains the linear layout manager. Each time you add a TableRow to Tablelayout, the TableRow is a table row, and TableRow is also a container, so it can also add additional components continuously, adding a column to the table for each child component. If you add a component directly to Tablelayout, the component will take up a row directly.

In a table layout, the width of the column is determined by the widest cell in the column, and the width of the entire table layout depends on the width of the parent container (the default is always full of the parent container itself).

In the table layout manager, you can set the following 3 ways to behave for cells.

• Shrinkable: If a column is set to Shrinkable, the width of all cells in the column can be shrunk to ensure that the table adapts to the width of the parent container.

• Stretchable: If a column is set to Stretchable, then the width of all the cells in the column can be stretched to ensure that the component fills the table free space completely.

• Collapsed: If a column is set to collapsed, all cells of that column are hidden.

Tablelayout inherits the LinearLayout, so it can fully support all the XML attributes supported by LinearLayout. In addition to this, Tablelayout supports the XML attributes and related methods shown in the following table.

Ii. examples

Next, learn the usage of tablelayout using a simple example program.

Also using the Widgetsample project, continue to use the Activity_main.xml file in the app/main/res/layout/directory, where the following code snippet is populated:

<?XML version= "1.0" encoding= "Utf-8"?><LinearLayoutxmlns:android= "Http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"Android:layout_width= "Match_parent"Android:layout_height= "Match_parent"android:orientation= "vertical">    <!--defines the first table layout, specifies that the 2nd column is allowed to shrink, and the 3rd column allows stretching -    <TablelayoutAndroid:layout_width= "Match_parent"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:shrinkcolumns= "1"Android:stretchcolumns= "2">        <!--Add a button directly, it will take one line -        <ButtonAndroid:layout_width= "Wrap_content"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:text= "button on the line alone"/>        <!--Add a table row -        <TableRow>            <!--add three buttons to the table row -            <ButtonAndroid:layout_width= "Wrap_content"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:text= "Normal button"/>            <ButtonAndroid:layout_width= "Wrap_content"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:text= "button to shrink"/>            <ButtonAndroid:layout_width= "Wrap_content"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:text= "stretched button"/>        </TableRow>    </Tablelayout>    <!--define the 2nd table layout, specify the 2nd column to hide -    <TablelayoutAndroid:layout_width= "Match_parent"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:collapsecolumns= "1">        <!--Add a table row -        <TableRow>            <!--add three buttons to the table row -            <ButtonAndroid:layout_width= "Wrap_content"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:text= "Normal button 1"/>            <ButtonAndroid:layout_width= "Wrap_content"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:text= "Normal button 2"/>            <ButtonAndroid:layout_width= "Wrap_content"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:text= "Normal button 3"/>        </TableRow>    </Tablelayout>    <!--defines the 3rd table layout, specifying that the 2nd and 3rd columns can be stretched -    <TablelayoutAndroid:layout_width= "Match_parent"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:stretchcolumns= "Up">        <!--Define a table row -        <TableRow>            <!--add three buttons to the table row -            <ButtonAndroid:layout_width= "Wrap_content"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:text= "Normal button" />            <ButtonAndroid:layout_width= "Wrap_content"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:text= "stretched button" />            <ButtonAndroid:layout_width= "Wrap_content"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:text= "stretched button" />        </TableRow>        <!--Define a table row -        <TableRow>            <!--add two buttons to the table row -            <ButtonAndroid:layout_width= "Wrap_content"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:text= "Normal button" />            <ButtonAndroid:layout_width= "Wrap_content"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:text= "stretched button" />        </TableRow>    </Tablelayout></LinearLayout>

The bold code in the 3 tablelayout,3 tablelayout defined in the above page specifies their control behavior for each column.

• 1th Tablelayout, specifying that the 2nd column is allowed to shrink, and the 3rd column allows stretching.

• 2nd Tablelayout, specifying that the 2nd column is hidden.

• 3rd tablelayout, specifies that columns 2nd and 3rd allow stretching.

Running the program, you can see the interface effect shown.

Note that TableRow does not need to set width layout_width and height layoutjieight, its width must be match_parent, that is, automatically populate the parent container, the height must be wrap_content, that is, depending on the content to change the height. However, for other controls in TableRow, the width and height can be set, but must be wrap_content or fill_parent.

Here, Tablelayout's example ends, and more usage about tablelayout can be practiced in more hands.

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Android 0 Basics 29th: Use tablelayout form layout