Last I checked (using Developer Options, "show view boundaries"), Gmail was not using Android layouts for items inside a message item view. It's one Android view per message list item, the internals are handled internally.
Now back to your original question: consider RelativeLayout: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/RelativeLayout.html -- K 2013/8/25 William Reed <wree...@gmail.com> > Maybe something like this but with an image view? > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8841283/gmail-like-listview-with-checkboxes-and-using-the-actionbar > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.