Android TableLayout Header row

One approach is by embedding a TableLayout within another TableLayout's row and putting the header in the preceding row as seen below. Aligning the data and the header requires the layout_width property of the header View objects and the data's View objects to be set to the same dip values. Also, the layout_weight property of the inner TableLayout's View objects must match its corresponding header. Now, in the XML below, I have placed 3 TextViews in the inner TableLayout in a single row to match with the column headers. This is just to show how the alignment can be done. You can populate that data programmatically by inflating a layout and adding it at runtime.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TableLayout
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent">


  <TableRow>
    <TextView android:text="Name"
        android:layout_width="100dp"        
        android:layout_column="0"
        android:layout_weight="1"/>
    <TextView android:text="Score"
        android:layout_width="30dp"
        android:layout_column="1"
        android:layout_weight="1">
    </TextView>
    <TextView android:text="Level"
        android:layout_width="30dp"
        android:layout_column="2"
        android:layout_weight="1">
    </TextView>
  </TableRow>

    <ScrollView android:layout_height="120dp">      
    <TableLayout android:id="@+id/score_table"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent">          
    <TableRow>
        <TextView android:text="Al"
        android:layout_width="100dp"        
        android:layout_column="0"
        android:layout_weight="1">
        </TextView>
        <TextView android:text="1000"
        android:layout_width="30dp"
        android:layout_column="1"
        android:layout_weight="1">
        </TextView>
        <TextView android:text="2"
        android:layout_width="30dp"
        android:layout_column="2"
        android:layout_weight="1">
        </TextView>
    </TableRow>
  </TableLayout>
  </ScrollView>     
</TableLayout>

I actually came up with another decent way of doing this.

Simply build the table normally with the header row as the first row, inside of a vertical orientation LinearLayout. Next, programmatically remove the first row then add it as the first child to the LinearLayout. This worked like a charm.

Edit: This also works without having to specify static column widths.