Android layout using tables
<p>I'm making an application in android that has a table; which seemed to be a good idea at first but I've now ran into a couple of problems.</p>

<p>I want all columns to be of equal width dispite how much content I have put in it (text view).  I thought stretch /shrink column may have handled that issue but it doesnt; I guess I missread something.  Is there any way to clip the text to stop it from making all the columns all different sizes?</p>

<p>I know I can clip the text myself to something i know will fit, but it would be nice if I could throw any length of type in there and know it's only going to take up 1/7th of the width.</p>

<p>My other issue is that I want my height to be equal to my width (so i get a square), but the width changes to the orientation of my view (landscape /portait) and is obviously dependant on the actual screen size too.</p>

<p>I've done everything in xml so far.</p>

<p>any help much appreciated</p>
