android: two issues using Tablerow+TextView in Tablelayout

Question

I am using Tablerow+TextView to make a simple view for blog posts and their replies. In each TableRow I put a TextView in. Now I have two issues:

1. The text which is longer than the screen won't automatically wrap up to be multi-line. Is it by design of TableRow? I've already set tr_content.setSingleLine(false); [update] This has been addressed, I think I should change Fill_parent to be Wrap_content in textView.tr_author_time.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams( LayoutParams.**WRAP_CONTENT**, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));

2. The Table won't scroll like ListView. My rows are more than the screen size. I expect the table could be scrolled down for viewing just like ListView. Is that possible?

Here is my code:

    TableLayout tl = (TableLayout) findViewById(R.id.article_content_table);
        TextView tr_title = new TextView(this);
    TextView tr_author_time = new TextView(this);
    TextView tr_content = new TextView(this);
    TableRow tr = new TableRow(this);

    for(int i = 0; i < BlogPost.size(); i++){
        try{
        // add the author, time
        tr = new TableRow(this);
        /////////////////add author+time row
        BlogPost article = mBlogPost.get(i);
        tr_author_time = new TextView(this);
        tr_author_time.setText(article.author+"("+
                article.post_time+")");
        tr_author_time.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.black));
        tr_author_time.setGravity(0x03);
        tr_author_time.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams( 
                    LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, 
                    LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)); 
        tr.addView(tr_author_time); 
        tl.addView(tr,new TableLayout.LayoutParams( 
                LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, 
                LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
        ////////////////////// then add content row
        tr = new TableRow(this);            
        tr_content = new TextView(this);
        tr_content.setText(article.content);
        tr_content.setSingleLine(false);
        tr_content.setGravity(0x03);
        tr_content.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams( 
                    LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, 
                    LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));            
        tr.addView(tr_content);       
         tr.setBackgroundResource(R.color.white);
            tl.addView(tr,new TableLayout.LayoutParams( 
                    LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, 
                    LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));

    }   

Answer 1

A more appropriate thing to do for wrapping items would have been to add android:shrinkColumns="*" or android:shrinkColumns="1" to the TableLayout, this would probably have fixed the wrapping issue.

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