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Android

Posted by Nicolas Blaisdell
Nicolas Blaisdell
19,157 Points

Need help with layout on Golf Scorecard app

I've finished the Android Lifecycle course and the entire app is working no problems. The only thing that's bothering me is that the layout is incorrect on the list, and I can't seem to figure out why.

Even though I'm using layout_weight, and weightSum correctly (to my knowledge) and I've set the width of all the views to 0dp and it looks correct in my preview window, when I actually run the app, all of the views squeeze to the left of my screen instead of spreading apart.

Here is my xml for my list_item:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="horizontal" android:weightSum="7" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent">

<TextView
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_weight="3"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    tools:text="Hole 1:"
    android:textSize="24sp"
    android:id="@+id/txtHoleLabel"/>

<TextView
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_weight="2"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    tools:text="0"
    android:textSize="24sp"
    android:id="@+id/txtStrokeCount"/>

<Button
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="-"
    android:textSize="24sp"
    android:id="@+id/btnRemoveStroke"/>

<Button
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="+"
    android:textSize="24sp"
    android:id="@+id/btnAddStroke"/>

</LinearLayout>