Adding blank spaces to layout

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I am trying to make empty lines within android. This is what I have been doing:

android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
android:text="\n\n"

I want to know if there is a better way? Thanks

android xml
14 Answers

This can by be achieved by using space or view.

Space is lightweight but not much flexible.

View occupies a rectangular area on the screen and is responsible for drawing and event handling. View is more customizable, you can add background, draw shapes like space.

Implementing Space :

(Eg: Space For 20 vertical and 10 horizontal density pixels)

<Space
  android:layout_width="10dp"
  android:layout_height="20dp"/>

Implementing View :

(Eg: View For 20 vertical and 10 horizontal density pixels including a background color)

  <View
       android:layout_width="10dp"
       android:layout_height="20dp"
       android:background="@color/bg_color"/>

Space for string formatting using HTML entity:

&#160; for non-breakable whitespace. &#032; for regular space.

user_86600180

Just add weightSum tag to linearlayout to 1 and for the corresponding view beneath it give layout_weight as .9 it will create a space between the views. You can experiment with the values to get appropriate value for you.

user_114003100

Below is the simple way to create blank line with line size. Here we can adjust size of the blank line. Try this one.

           <TextView
            android:id="@id/textView"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:textSize="5dp"/>
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