How To Give Empty Space Between Rows Of Listview?

In my application I have a requirement of listview with empty spaces between rows of list.So that I can give background to each row and it will look something like blocks of rows.

Solution 1:

You can use android:divider and android:dividerHeight to customize the spacing between rows.

<LinearLayoutxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"><ListViewandroid:id="@+id/android:list"android:layout_width="wrap_content"android:layout_height="wrap_content"android:divider="#FF0000"android:dividerHeight="4px"/></LinearLayout>

Solution 2:

I had the same problem except I needed to set the divider programatically because the view was dynamically generated. I'm posting this answer because it was my first google hit for future reference. You need a custom Drawable. Create a new file with the following code: drawable/list_divider.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><shapexmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"android:shape="rectangle" ><sizeandroid:height="16dp"/><solidandroid:color="@android:color/transparent"/></shape>

Inside your java code you need to get a reference to your ListView and set the divider like this:

listView.setDivider(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.list_divider));

The result is exactly the same.