I am trying a very simple application that uses a RecyclerView with a GridLayoutManager. What I want to achieve is to maintain the column-width of the card-items and change the margins between them (I need to keep my column width fixed). But what happens is the width of the column itself changes when I switch between portrait and landscape.
If I understand this correctly, I need to measure the width of the screen divide it by the width of each card and set the span count of the GridLayoutManager to the calculated value. But I seem to be missing something.
Also, I tried using the AutoFitRecyclerView (http://blog.sqisland.com/2014/12/recyclerview-autofit-grid.html) and there are a lot of posts RecyclerView GridLayoutManager: how to auto-detect span count? , Changing number of columns in RecyclerView gridlayout that help auto-detect the span count, but this is not what I want to achieve. I would like to have the same column-width while adjusting the margins between the columns.
Any pointers or a solution would be most appreciated.
Here is the grid-item's layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="210dp"
android:layout_height="338dp"
android:layout_margin="12dp">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/thumbnail"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="270dp"
android:background="#1F000000"/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/title_text"
android:layout_width="164dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/thumbnail"
android:layout_marginBottom="13dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="13dp"
android:layout_marginRight="32dp"
android:layout_marginTop="13dp"
android:ellipsize="end"
android:maxLines="2"
android:textColor="#393c3d"
android:textSize="14sp" />
</RelativeLayout>
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>