Android Drawing Separator/Divider Line in Layout?

Question

I would like to draw a line right in the middle of a layout and use it as a separator of other items like TextView. Is there a good widget for this. I don't really want to use an image as it would be hard to match the other components to it. And I want it to be relatively positioned as well. Thanks

Answer 1

I usually use this code to add horizontal line:

<View     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="1dp"     android:background="@android:color/darker_gray"/> 

To add vertical separator, switch the layout_width and layout_height values

Answer 2

To improve on the answers provided by Alex Kucherenko and Dan Dar3

I added this to my styles:

<style name="Divider">     <item name="android:layout_width">match_parent</item>     <item name="android:layout_height">1dp</item>     <item name="android:background">?android:attr/listDivider</item> </style> 

Then in my layouts is less code and simpler to read.

<View style="@style/Divider"/>