It feels pretty hacky, but I managed to get the correct look by adding an extra column and row beyond what is needed. Then I filled the extra column with a Space in each row defining a height and filled the extra row with a Space in each col defining a width. For extra flexibility, … Read more
Personaly I don’t like to subclass RecyclerView for this, because for me it seems that there is GridLayoutManager’s responsibility to detect span count. So after some android source code digging for RecyclerView and GridLayoutManager I wrote my own class extended GridLayoutManager that do the job: public class GridAutofitLayoutManager extends GridLayoutManager { private int columnWidth; private … Read more
Starting in API 21 the notion of weight was added to GridLayout. To support older android devices, you can use the GridLayout from the v7 support library. The following XML gives an example of how you can use weights to fill the screen width. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <android.support.v7.widget.GridLayout xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” xmlns:grid=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto” android:id=”@+id/choice_grid” android:layout_width=”fill_parent” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:layout_centerHorizontal=”true” android:padding=”4dp” … Read more