I have a parent LinearLayout with a fixed size. At onCreate() I load data and add rows to the parent layout dynamically. Anywhere from 1-10 rows are loaded. I want the rows to always fill the parent, for example if I have 2 rows each row should have 50% height of the parent (50% + 50% = 100%). If I have 3 rows each row should use 33% of the parent height etc.
I tried to use an OnGlobalLayoutListener to get the height of the parent and resize the rows dynamically, unfortunately when I run the app the resizing is arbitrary at best. Sometimes the rows get resized, sometimes they get resized after a noticeable delay of about 0.5 seconds.
Is there a better way to achieve this? Maybe already in the XML as for example with layout_weight (given that the rows only get added in code)?
You can do this by setting the weight sum on the parent LinearLayout to the number of rows you have inside of it. If this is a vertical list of items you would then set the height of each row to 0 and set its weight to 1. If this is a horizontal list of items you do the same but set the width to 0 and set the weight to 1.