Many Widgets in one layout

pepe1587 · December 14th, 2011, 07:43 PM

Hi,

I'm pretty new to Android development, so this could be a silly question, but silly or not, I need to get this working!

I'm building a layout where the user has to enter a lot of personal data, like full name, birth date, birth place, weight, sex, etc.. I'm using EditText widgets for capturing that information using the layout editor in Eclipse.

The issue I'm having is that after 4 or 5 EditText widgets I don't have any space left in the layout to drag and drop more widgets. I tried adding them manually in the xml view, but when I run the layout, I get a lot of them overlapped in the last row of the screen. I tried adding them to a ScrollView, but I had the same result. I can't find a way to continue adding widgets with the possibility to scroll down the screen so they can all fit in a single layout.

As I said before, I'm a newbie in Android development and this is the first application I'm trying to develop, so maybe there is a really simple way to accomplish this task that I'm not aware of! In Java Swing programming this is a trivial thing, so I don't think it's too complicated in Android development.

Any help or suggestions would be really appreciated! Thanks in advanced!

Regards

miXer · December 19th, 2011, 02:55 PM

This xml layout will put all EditText widgets under each other.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ScrollView
	xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
	android:layout_width="fill_parent"
	android:layout_height="fill_parent"
	android:orientation="vertical">
	<LinearLayout
		android:orientation="vertical"
		android:layout_width="fill_parent"
		android:layout_height="wrap_content">
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
		<EditText
			android:layout_width="fill_parent"
			android:layout_height="wrap_content"
			android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
	</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

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