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    copied!<p>I'm battling with Android's awful layout system. I'm trying to get a table to fill the screen (simple right?) but it's ridiculously hard.</p> <p>I got it to work somehow in XML like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt; &lt;TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent"&gt; &lt;TableRow android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_weight="1"&gt; &lt;Button android:text="A" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_weight="1"/&gt; &lt;Button android:text="B" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_weight="1"/&gt; &lt;/TableRow&gt; &lt;TableRow android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_weight="1"&gt; &lt;Button android:text="C" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_weight="1"/&gt; &lt;Button android:text="D" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_weight="1"/&gt; &lt;/TableRow&gt; </code></pre> <p>However I can not get it to work in Java. I've tried a million combinations of the LayoutParams, but nothing ever works. This is the best result I have which only fills the width of the screen, not the height:</p> <pre><code> table = new TableLayout(this); // Java. You suck. TableLayout.LayoutParams lp = new TableLayout.LayoutParams( ViewGroup.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT); table.setLayoutParams(lp); // This line has no effect! WHYYYY?! table.setStretchAllColumns(true); for (int r = 0; r &lt; 2; ++r) { TableRow row = new TableRow(this); for (int c = 0; c &lt; 2; ++c) { Button btn = new Button(this); btn.setText("A"); row.addView(btn); } table.addView(row); } </code></pre> <p>Obviously the Android documentation is no help. Anyone have any ideas?</p>
 

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