Table in Android

Question

In my Android application there is a screen with some data to be displayed in table format. This table will have around 5 columns and at least 50 rows.

How do I do I create a table in android?

I searched through and everybody seems to recommend to use TableLayout and textView for each cell. Using this technique seems to be a bit difficult as there are lots of textView Components.

Is there any other solution to this?

Do you want to do code through? or through xml? – Dhruvisha Apr 05 '12 at 10:23 — Dhruvisha, Apr 05 '12 at 10:23

Dhruvisha · Answer 1 · 2012-04-18T05:51:59.880

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TableLayout lTableLayout;
lTableLayout = (TableLayout)findViewById(R.id.tblayout);
for(int i=0;i<10;i++){
TableRow tr1 = new TableRow(this);
tr1.setPadding(0, 5, 0, 0);
lTableLayout.addView(tr1, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
                        LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
TextView tv11 = new TextView(this);
tv11.setPadding(2, 0, 0, 0);
tv11.setTextSize(12);
tr1.addView(tv11,LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT); // Can give width and height in numbers also.

}

These will create 10 rows and 1 textview in each row in taken table layout. take one table layout in your xml file like below :

<TableLayout
                    android:id="@+id/tblayout"
                    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
</TableLayout>

edited Apr 18 '12 at 05:51

answered Apr 05 '12 at 11:30

Dhruvisha

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Thank you for your answer. I was able to create using the above. But i would like to know how to apply a particular style to the table Row, text view in this case. The style is defined in the styles.xml. – Nini Apr 17 '12 at 11:40
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2016249/how-to-programmatically-setting-style-attribute-in-a-view May this help u. – Dhruvisha Apr 17 '12 at 11:59
Background and Text Color is not an issue. But width of the textview is not getting set when we take the attributes from style or inflate text view. I would like to know why the width alone doesnt work. – Nini Apr 17 '12 at 12:30
You can give width to textview by code. No need to use style for that. I have edited my answer for this. Hope that will help you. :) – Dhruvisha Apr 18 '12 at 05:51
Thank you. I have done like that only. Wanted to know why width given in the style is not working. Hence asked. – Nini Apr 18 '12 at 09:24
ok dear. And if u found your solution pls mark as answered so that others can get answer of same problem. Thank You. – Dhruvisha Apr 18 '12 at 09:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 05 '12 at 10:26

Use ListView with Custom adapter , create five textview's in listview item as columns.. create listitem like this row.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
   xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="match_parent">

   <TextView android:text="TextView" android:id="@+id/textView1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
   <TextView android:text="TextView" android:id="@+id/textView2" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
   <TextView android:text="TextView" android:id="@+id/textView3" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
   <TextView android:text="TextView" android:id="@+id/textView4" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
   <TextView android:text="TextView" android:id="@+id/textView5" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 05 '12 at 10:28

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Its not necessary to user TableLayout.

you can user Custom ListView And set header of ListView as your Column name

To create custom listview see this example

answered Apr 05 '12 at 10:28

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Thank you for the reply. Will check it. Is there something like Swing JTable? – Nini Apr 05 '12 at 10:31

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