Apps Complete newby, question about stuff fitting screen

[frenchsquared]

I have been working on the view tutorials.
I just completed the tab layout and I am wondering how to make the tabs fill the screen on my phone. There is a space on each side of the screen about 10px wide.

Some tutorials this isn't there.

It effects all layouts and even the title bar.

I thought it had to do something with android:layout_width="match_parent"
as opposed to android:layout_width="fill_parent", but I have the space either way.

Thanks Gordon

I just noticed that using an xml layout as apposed to creating the data in the activity seems to fix it.

 

[droidkovich]

this could help.
the way you choose to "fill" the window with the layout affects its borders, but there are several things that can affect the behavior of widgets in the layout.

maybe this can help.

Droid Coders: Android: displaying widgets in a grid-like layout