One TextView per line in LinearLayout

Question

I am currently starting an Android app and want to build a list where each item occupies one single row. Right now I only have a TextView but will have more elements later.

I am having problems in placing one element per row since the TextViews just get placed one after the other, like this:

Android View

The layout for this is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/twitterNumber"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_margin="@dimen/text_margin"
        android:textAppearance="?attr/textAppearanceListItem" />

</LinearLayout>

The code for the RecyclerView is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/list"
    android:name="codehero.twitteralarmclock.ui.main.tweet.TweetsFragment"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_marginLeft="16dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="16dp"
    app:layoutManager="LinearLayoutManager"
    tools:context=".ui.main.tweet.TweetsFragment"
    tools:listitem="@layout/fragment_tweets" />

I've tried changing the orientation of the LinearLayout, adding the maxLines and singleLine attributes to the TextView but nothing changed.

Thanks for you help in advance!

Answer 1

So it turns the Android Studio default FragmentList code will create a GridLayout if the list count is bigger than 1:

class TweetsFragment : Fragment() {

    override fun onCreateView(
        inflater: LayoutInflater, container: ViewGroup?,
        savedInstanceState: Bundle?
    ): View? {
        val view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_tweets_list, container, false)

        // Set the adapter
        if (view is RecyclerView) {
            with(view) {
                layoutManager = when {
                    columnCount <= 1 -> LinearLayoutManager(context)
                    else -> GridLayoutManager(context, columnCount)
                }
                adapter = TweetsViewAdapter(TwitterPlaceholderContent.ITEMS)
            }
        }
        return view
    }
}

The solution is to always create a LinearLayout inside the onCreateView method:

if (view is RecyclerView) {
    with(view) {
        layoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(context)
        adapter = TweetsViewAdapter(TwitterPlaceholderContent.ITEMS)
    }
}