How to make RatingBar to show five stars

Question

I am following the standard example of how to add a RatingBar. To control the number of stars I tried to use android:numStars="5". The problem is that the number of stars doesn't seem to do anything at all. In portrait-layout I get 6 stars and when I flip the phone I get about 10 stars. I tried to set the number of stars in my Activity (myBar.setNumStars(5)) that loads the xml but there was no success with that option either.

So my question is how do I define my layout so that it will only show five stars? Set numStars doesn't seem to work.

Thanks in advance, Roland

Answer 1

<RatingBar             android:id="@+id/rating"             android:layout_width="wrap_content"             android:layout_height="wrap_content"             style="?android:attr/ratingBarStyleSmall"             android:numStars="5"             android:stepSize="0.1"             android:isIndicator="true" /> 

in code

mRatingBar.setRating(int) 

Answer 2

The RatingBar.setNumStar documentation says:

Sets the number of stars to show. In order for these to be shown properly, it is recommended the layout width of this widget be wrap content.

So setting the layout width to wrap_content should solve this problem.