Setting space between different items of a listView

I'm having the following problem: I have a ListView and I get the layout for its items from an xml file. The thing is, though, that there should be some space between sequential items which I accomplish by nesting my layout into a dummy RelativeLayout just so that I can set marginTop =" " to the layout containing the item. The problem is that when the user clicks an item of the ListView the whole area (including the gap between sequential items) becomes selected开发者_开发知识库. How do I deal with this? Thanks!

Instead of nesting items in a RelativeLayout, why not try using the listview's own "divider" to separate items?

In your ListView xml, add:

android:dividerHeight="15 dip"

(or some other value)

try this:

ListView android:id="@+id/MyListView"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:divider="@android:color/transparent"
  android:dividerHeight="10.0sp"

Create your own List View by extending BaseAdapter class in a separate class. you can refer to this