Android: ListView Divider
Disclaimer: I’m new to Android, I could be doing this all wrong. If I am, please comment and correct me.
Programming for Android is an interesting experience, coming from a .NET/C# background. I’ve done plenty of Java before in Uni and disliked it, but that was before I started playing with WPF.
Like WPF, Android’s UI is created using XML based documents, but unlike WPF, there aren’t any nice WYSIWYG builders. And most of the time it seems you need a combination of code behind and XML to get what you want for the UI, which can get a bit frustrating.
The divider between the items in this particular app is more annoying than it is useful, so I wanted to get rid of it. I was initially looking for separator or border, but the name is divider, and it has two properties.To set the divider between the ListItems to "nothing", you have two options. The first is in Java,
ListView x = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.ListView01);
x.setDivider(null);
x.setDividerHeight(0);
The alternative is to set it in XML, but in this case its more of a hack than the above of turning it ‘off’.
<ListView android:id="@+id/ListView01" android:background="#ffffff" android:dividerHeight="0px" android:divider="#ffffff" />
Even though the dividerHeight is set to 0 (0px, 0dp, whatever, the results were the same), a black line was still visible. The best solution is to set the colour (the divider value) to the same as your background. Using a gradient or image as the background? Set it in the code behind.
