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copied!<p>I'm trying to create an activity that presents some data to the user. The data is such that it can be divided into 'words', each being a widget, and sequence of 'words' would form the data ('sentence'?), the ViewGroup widget containing the words. As space required for all 'words' in a 'sentence' would exceed the available horizontal space on the display, I would like to wrap these 'sentences' as you would a normal piece of text.</p> <p>The following code:</p> <pre><code>public class WrapTest extends Activity { /** Called when the activity is first created. */ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); LinearLayout l = new LinearLayout(this); LinearLayout.LayoutParams lp = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams( LinearLayout.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT); LinearLayout.LayoutParams mlp = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams( new ViewGroup.MarginLayoutParams( LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LinearLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)); mlp.setMargins(0, 0, 2, 0); for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { TextView t = new TextView(this); t.setText("Hello"); t.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED); t.setSingleLine(true); l.addView(t, mlp); } setContentView(l, lp); } } </code></pre> <p>yields something like the left picture, but I would want a layout presenting the same widgets like in the right one.</p> <p><a href="http://fnord.se/android/01-have.png">non-wrapping http://fnord.se/android/01-have.png</a> <a href="http://fnord.se/android/01-want.png">wrapping http://fnord.se/android/01-want.png</a></p> <p>Is there such a layout or combination of layouts and parameters, or do I have to implement my own ViewGroup for this?</p>

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