Table Layout

TableLayout is a ViewGroup that displays child View elements in rows and columns.

1. Start a new project named HelloTableLayout.
2. Open the res/layout/main.xml file and insert the following:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
       android:layout_width="fill_parent"
       android:layout_height="fill_parent"
       android:stretchColumns="1">
       <TableRow>
           <TextView
               android:layout_column="1"
               android:text="Open..."
               android:padding="3dip" />
           <TextView
               android:text="Ctrl-O"
               android:gravity="right"
               android:padding="3dip" />
       </TableRow>
       <TableRow>
           <TextView
               android:layout_column="1"
               android:text="Save..."
               android:padding="3dip" />
           <TextView
               android:text="Ctrl-S"
               android:gravity="right"
               android:padding="3dip" />
       </TableRow>
       <TableRow>
           <TextView
               android:layout_column="1"
               android:text="Save As..."
               android:padding="3dip" />
           <TextView
               android:text="Ctrl-Shift-S"
               android:gravity="right"
               android:padding="3dip" />
       </TableRow>
       <View
           android:layout_height="2dip"
           android:background="#FF909090" />
       <TableRow>
           <TextView
               android:text="X"
               android:padding="3dip" />
           <TextView
               android:text="Import..."
               android:padding="3dip" />
       </TableRow>
       <TableRow>
           <TextView
               android:text="X"
               android:padding="3dip" />
           <TextView
               android:text="Export..."
               android:padding="3dip" />
           <TextView
               android:text="Ctrl-E"
               android:gravity="right"
               android:padding="3dip" />
       </TableRow>
       <View
           android:layout_height="2dip"
           android:background="#FF909090" />
       <TableRow>
           <TextView
               android:layout_column="1"
               android:text="Quit"
               android:padding="3dip" />
       </TableRow>
   </TableLayout>

   Notice how this resembles the structure of an HTML table. The TableLayout element is like the HTML <table> element; TableRow is like a ><tr>> element; but for the cells, you can use any kind of View element. In this example, a TextView is used for each cell. In between some of the rows, there is also a basic View, which is used to draw a horizontal line.

3. Make sure your HelloTableLayout Activity loads this layout in the onCreate() method:

   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
       super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
       setContentView(R.layout.main);
   }

   The setContentView(int) method loads the layout file for the Activity, specified by the resource ID — R.layout.main refers to the res/layout/main.xml layout file.

4. Run the application.

You should see the following:

References

• TableLayout
• TableRow
• TextView