Tablelayout of Android layout manager

2. tablelayout

The tablelayout class manages controls in the form of rows and columns. Each behavior is a tablerow object and can also be a view object. When it is a view object, this object will change all columns across rows.

You can set columns as the following attributes.

• Shrinkable: the column width can be reduced to make the table fit the size of its parent container.
• Stretchable: the column width can be stretched ,......
• Collapsed: This column is hidden.

Attribute name	Method	Description
Android: collapsecolumns	Setcollapsed (INT, Boolean)	Column starting from 0
Android: shrinkcolums	Setshrinkcolumns (Boolean)
Android: stretchable	Setstretchable (Boolean)

Table_layout.xml

<? XML version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<Linearlayout xmlns: Android = "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
Android: layout_width = "fill_parent" Android: layout_height = "fill_parent"
Android: Orientation = "vertical">
<Tablelayout Android: Id = "@ + ID/tablelayout01"
Android: layout_width = "fill_parent" Android: layout_height = "wrap_content"
Android: Background = "@ drawable/White" xmlns: Android = "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<Textview Android: Id = "@ + ID/tv01" Android: text = "I Am a separate line .... "
Android: layout_width = "fill_parent" Android: layout_height = "wrap_content"
Android: Background = "@ drawable/darkgray" Android: layout_margin = "4px"/>
</Tablelayout>
<Tablelayout Android: Id = "@ + ID/tablelayout02"
Android: layout_width = "fill_parent" Android: layout_height = "wrap_content"
Android: stretchcolumns = "0"
Xmlns: Android = "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<Tablerow Android: Id = "@ + ID/tablerow01" Android: layout_width = "wrap_content"
Android: layout_height = "wrap_content">
<Textview Android: Id = "@ + ID/tv02" Android: text = "I'm a row being stretched"
Android: layout_width = "wrap_content" Android: layout_height = "wrap_content"
Android: Background = "@ drawable/White" Android: layout_margin = "4px"/>
<Textview Android: Id = "@ + ID/tv03" Android: text = "less content"
Android: layout_width = "wrap_content" Android: layout_height = "wrap_content"
Android: Background = "@ drawable/White" Android: layout_margin = "4px"/>
</Tablerow>
</Tablelayout>
<Tablelayout Android: Id = "@ + ID/tablelayout03"
Android: layout_width = "fill_parent" Android: layout_height = "wrap_content"
Android: shrinkcolumns = "0" Xmlns: Android = "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<Tablerow Android: Id = "@ + ID/tablerow02" Android: layout_width = "wrap_content"
Android: layout_height = "wrap_content">
<Textview Android: Id = "@ + ID/tv04" Android: text = "I am the compressed row of the compressed row"
Android: Background = "@ drawable/White" Android: layout_width = "wrap_content"
Android: layout_height = "wrap_content" Android: layout_margin = "4px"/>
<Textview Android: Id = "@ + ID/tv05" Android: text = "I have a lot of content, a lot of content"
Android: Background = "@ drawable/White" Android: layout_width = "wrap_content"
Android: layout_height = "wrap_content" Android: layout_margin = "4px"/>
</Tablerow>

</Tablelayout>
</Linearlayout>