Layout Dynamic Grid In Middle

I have a grid with (currently) four cells wide. Each cell I am specifying to be 20px wide. I want to position this in the middle and at the top of a portrait layout. My code is bel

Solution 1:

Try:

<LinearLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:orientation="vertical"android:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="match_parent"><LinearLayoutandroid:layout_width="match_parent"android:layout_height="0dp"android:orientation="horizontal"android:layout_weight="1"android:gravity="center"android:background="#ffff00"><Viewandroid:layout_width="0dp"android:background="#ff0000"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_weight="1"/><GridViewandroid:id="@+id/grid_view"android:background="#ffffff"android:layout_width="80dp"android:layout_height="80dp"android:numColumns="4"android:columnWidth="20dp"android:verticalSpacing="1dp"android:horizontalSpacing="1dp"/><Viewandroid:layout_width="0dp"android:background="#FFFF00FF"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:layout_weight="1"/></LinearLayout><Viewandroid:layout_width="match_parent"android:background="#FF00FFFF"android:layout_height="0dp"android:layout_weight="3"/></LinearLayout>

You will get something like that:

BTW: you can change the width/height of your GridView as you wish, you can put there a weight too with a similar approach as for the views next to it.