Evenly space TextViews across screen with right and left justification

Question

I want to space out 3 TextViews across the width of the screen, with the 1st TextView touching the left margin, and the 3rd TextView touching the right margin.

Currently I'm able to achieve the following:

|text[space]text[space]text[space]|

and

|[space]text[space]text[space]text|

and

|[space/2]text[space]text[space]text[space/2]|

By setting left, right, and center gravities, respectively, within a horizontal ListView.

I want to achieve:

|text[space]text[space]text|

But I can't seem to get it. Here's my XML:

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/graph_xaxis_labels"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@id/linegraph_fragment"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <TextView
    android:id="@+id/textview_xaxis_0"
    android:layout_width="0px"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:textSize="8sp"
        android:text="02/12"
        />
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textview_xaxis_1"
        android:layout_width="0px"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_weight="1"

        android:textSize="8sp"
        android:text="02/13"
        />
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textview_xaxis_2"
        android:layout_width="0px"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_weight="1"

        android:textSize="8sp"
        android:text="02/14"
        />


</LinearLayout>

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

PS: I know hardcoding TextView text is bad. That's only temporary.

Answer 1

You're almost there. You're missing the Gravity.

UPDATE: To center more than three, you need to change the layout… updated below for 6 labels: (The hint was given by Haresh answer) It has a few drawbacks but should do the trick.

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:id="@+id/graph_xaxis_labels"
              android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:gravity="center"
              android:orientation="horizontal">
  <TextView
      android:id="@+id/textview_xaxis_0"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:textSize="8sp"
      android:text="02/12"/>
  <View
      android:layout_width="0dp"
      android:layout_height="1dp"
      android:layout_weight="1"/>
  <TextView
      android:id="@+id/textview_xaxis_1"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:textSize="8sp"
      android:text="02/13"/>
  <View
      android:layout_width="0dp"
      android:layout_height="1dp"
      android:layout_weight="1"/>
  <TextView
      android:id="@+id/textview_xaxis_2"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:textSize="8sp"
      android:text="02/14"/>
  <View
      android:layout_width="0dp"
      android:layout_height="1dp"
      android:layout_weight="1"/>
  <TextView
      android:id="@+id/textview_xaxis_3"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:textSize="8sp"
      android:text="02/15"/>
  <View
      android:layout_width="0dp"
      android:layout_height="1dp"
      android:layout_weight="1"/>
  <TextView
      android:id="@+id/textview_xaxis_4"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:textSize="8sp"
      android:text="02/16"/>
  <View
      android:layout_width="0dp"
      android:layout_height="1dp"
      android:layout_weight="1"/>
  <TextView
      android:id="@+id/textview_xaxis_5"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:textSize="8sp"
      android:text="02/17"/>
</LinearLayout>