Xamarin Android Gridview has no layout_columnSpan

Question

Recently installed Visual Studio 2015 and Xamarin for Android development. Latest releases.

GridView has no options for column span and relative view has no options for positioning.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <GridLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:useDefaultMargins="true"
    android:alignmentMode="alignBounds"
    android:columnOrderPreserved="false"
    android:columnCount="7">
    <TextView
        android:text="Lathe Control by Wire"
        android:textStyle="bold|italic"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:layout_columnSpan="7"        <!-- attribute not declared -->
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
        android:id="@+id/textView1" />
</GridLayout>

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What result did you expect? Or what is the final view you want to get? I've tried your code in Xamarin and it's only match all GridLayout width. — Dmitriy Kaluzhin
– Dmitriy Kaluzhin, Commented Dec 17, 2016 at 14:47

Lekve · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-16 18:55:27Z

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GridLayout is deprecated use other layouts like RelativeLayout, LinearLayout ,CoordinatorLayout and etc.

answered Dec 16, 2016 at 18:55

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user7117046 Over a year ago

I'm new to Android and Xamarin so how could I have known GridLayout is deprecated? After all, I can drag it from the tools menu but then can't use it. Weird.

Lekve Over a year ago

I assume you are coming from XAML the best way for you might be Xamarin.Forms , you can write XAML and compile app to 3 platforms Android,iOS and UWP

user7117046 Over a year ago

Thanks for the help. With Studio now installed and working I'm not keen to try another approach.

user7117046 · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-17 13:28:08Z

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Gave up on Xamarin. Either I've done something really dumb (most likely!) or Xamarin does not support grid or relative views.

Installed Android Studio and it works fine.

Pity as I've used Visual Studio for years of Windows and web development with no problems.

answered Dec 17, 2016 at 13:28

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