Set the layout weight of a TextView programmatical

Question

I'm trying to dynamically create TableRow objects and add them to a TableLayout. The TableRow objects has 2 items, a TextView and a CheckBox. The TextView items need to have their layout weight set to 1 to push the CheckBox items to the far right.

I can't find documentation on how to programmatically set the layout weight of a TextView item.

Answer 1

You can also give weight separately like this ,

LayoutParams lp1 = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);

 lp1.weight=1;

Answer 2

TextView text = new TextView(v.getContext());
text.setLayoutParams(new TableLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 
                                                LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 1f));

(OR)

TextView tv = new TextView(v.getContext());
LayoutParams params = new TableRow.LayoutParams(0, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 1f);
tv.setLayoutParams(params);

1f is refered as weight=1; according to your need you can give 2f or 3f, views will move accoding to the space. For making specified distance between views in Linear layout use weightsum for "LinearLayout".

LinearLayout ll_Outer= (LinearLayout ) view.findViewById(R.id.linearview);
LinearLayout llInner = new LinearLayout(this);
            LinearLayout.LayoutParams lp = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LinearLayout.LayoutParams.FillParent, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WrapContent);
            llInner.Orientation = Orientation.Horizontal;
            llInner.WeightSum = 2;
            ll_Outer.AddView(llInner);

Answer 3

I had a fair amount of difficulty with a solution something very similar to this: trying to have two buttons in a TableRow, with each being half the screen width. For whatever reason, the left button would always be about 70% of the width, and the right button 30%. Calling table_layout.setStretchAllColumns(true) had no effect, nor did setting the button's width to half the screen, nor setting their layout weight.

The solution I ended up with was nesting a LinearLayout in the TableRows, which did take into account the value of the buttons' width.

    TableLayout layout = new TableLayout(this);
    TableRow top_row = new TableRow(this);
    left_button = styleButton();
    right_button = styleButton();
    LinearLayout toprow_layout = new LinearLayout (this);
    toprow_layout.setOrientation(LinearLayout.HORIZONTAL);
    toprow_layout.addView (left_button);
    toprow_layout.addView(right_button);
    toprow.addView(top_layout);
    layout.addView(top_row)

    private Button styleButton() {
            Button btn = new Button (this);
            android.view.Display display = ((android.view.WindowManager)getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay();      
            btn.setWidth((int)(display.getWidth()/2));    // set width to half
            btn.setHeight(((int)display.getHeight()/6));  // set height to whatevs
            btn.setText("foo");
            return btn;
        }

Answer 4

You have to use TableLayout.LayoutParams with something like this:

TextView tv = new TextView(v.getContext());
tv.setLayoutParams(new TableLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 1f));

The last parameter is the weight.

Answer 5

This work for me, and I hope it will work for you also

Set the LayoutParams for the parent view first:

myTableLayout.setLayoutParams(new TableLayout.LayoutParams(TableLayout.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,
                TableLayout.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT));

then set for the TextView (child):

 TableLayout.LayoutParams textViewParam = new TableLayout.LayoutParams
     (TableLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
     TableLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,1f);
     //-- set components margins
     textViewParam.setMargins(5, 0, 5,0);
     myTextView.setLayoutParams(textViewParam);