GridView and excess space padding

android, gridview, layout, padding, stretch

Solution

To solve my problem I used this gridView:

<GridView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/MyGrid" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
    android:padding="0dp"
    android:verticalSpacing="2dp" 
    android:horizontalSpacing="2dp"
    android:scrollingCache="true" 
    android:smoothScrollbar="true"
    android:clipChildren="true" 
    android:alwaysDrawnWithCache="true"
    android:numColumns="auto_fit" 
    android:columnWidth="100dp"
    android:stretchMode="columnWidth" 
    android:gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:background="#000000">
</GridView>

The most important thing is the `clipChildren` property.

Problem

I have a problem with grid view layout on Android. I can't find solution to eliminate extra space in grid view. I tried a lot of things (numColumns, columnWidth, stretchMode, gravity) and advices (from StackOverflow), but nothing works correctly. I spent almost 8 hours with this problem. Here is a code of grid view: ``` <GridView android:id="@+id/lookbook_gridview" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:listSelector="@null" android:padding="0dip" android:layout_margin="0dip" android:verticalSpacing="0px" android:horizontalSpacing="0px" android:numColumns="auto_fit" android:columnWidth="160px" android:stretchMode="columnWidth" android:gravity="center" android:layout_gravity="center" android:background="#000" android:cacheColorHint="#000" android:descendantFocusability="afterDescendants" android:layout_alignParentTop="true" android:layout_above="@id/buttons"> </GridView> ``` I also tried to reduce extra space programically: ``` private void setGridview() { GridView gridview = (GridView) findViewById(R.id.lookbook_gridview); Display display = ((WindowManager) getSystemService(WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay(); int gridSize = display.getWidth(); int count = gridSize / 160; // image has 160x160 px int colWidth = (gridSize / count) - PADDING; gridview.setColumnWidth(colWidth); gridview.setNumColumns(count); } ``` But it works only on my HTC Desire (right), but on emulator (left) with the same display resolution and the same API version - it is not working. Does somebody know, how to set images in gridview without any special padding or space to work successfully with all resolutions and devices?

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