Stupid Android ListView tricks

I recently made some major changes to the Movie Track app that I put out. What started as an app that I did for my own use seems to have gained a few users. So, I decided to upgrade the look and feel a bit. In the process of this, I changed several of the screens from using a ListActivity to using a normal XML layout that contained a ListView. After mucking around with all of the settings to get things looking the way I wanted, I ran in to an interesting snag.

Everything displayed the way I wanted it to, but to "click" on an item that was in the ListView, you had to actually "click" on the text of the ListView, and not just on the row in the ListView. Perhaps I am a perfectionist at some level, but this annoyed me to no end.

Much Google later, I couldn't find the answer on how to do it. So, I started to mess with settings. A hair-brained idea or two later, I decided to try changing the ListView's layout-width from "wrap_content" to "fill_parent". Amazingly enough, that did exactly what I wanted!

Sure, this was a bit of a "duh" experience, and a newbie mistake. But, I figured I would publish it here in case some other developer runs across the same thing, and gets as frustrated as I was getting!