In the previous article we looked at LinearLayout but ran in to a problem when we tried to get the columns of nested LinearLayouts to align. In this article we’ll explore TableLayout and look at how it can solve that particular problem.
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Layout Types Part 1: LinearLayout
Android Layouts are extremely powerful. In the article on Supporting Multiple Displays we looked at how we can use Layouts to allow Android to take a certain amount of responsibility for fitting things to the display. However, Android supports a number of different types of Layout and, while we may have a clear idea of…
Text Shadows
Often tools like Photoshop are used to create graphic elements which are actually text with various effects applied to them, and an well used effect in such elements is the use of shadows. Android supports text shadows, and in this article we’ll explore a number of ways that we can use the built in shadows…
Supporting Multiple Displays – Part 2
In Supporting Multiple Displays – Part 1 we began looking at a layout which would work across a variety of screen sizes, aspect ratios, and densities. We covered some general rules about how best to achieve this, but in this article we’re going to examine the layout XML that we have used in the example…
Supporting Multiple Displays – Part 1
I often see questions asking how to create Android layouts which will work across a wide range of devices with different screen sizes and densities. There is no one single answer to this, there are a number of techniques that you can use. In this article we’ll look at some of these techniques. We have…