Distance between items in a Listview

Question

I have a ListView in my Layout.

    <ListView 
        android:id="@+id/list_infoitems"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

Every list item layout looks like:

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:background="@drawable/selector_custombutton"
    android:padding="10dp"
    android:layout_gravity="center">
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text_history_station_name"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center_vertical|left"
        android:textColor="@color/rnv_blue_540c"/>
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text_history_line_id"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center_vertical|left"
        android:textColor="@color/rnv_blue_540c"/>      
</LinearLayout>

I want to have a distance between all item. For that I'v played with android:margin property, but without success.

Does anybody know, how to change the distance between item in a listview.

Thank you,

Mur

Answer 1

You could always set the dividerHeight property. Android Docs

<ListView 
    android:id="@+id/list"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:dividerHeight="5dp"
/>

If that isn't what you want to do, in your listview item you could wrap your LinearLayout in a RelativeLayout and add a margin to the LinearLayout

<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">
    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
        android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"
    />
</RelativeLayout>