Margin does not impact in "include"

I had the same problem and the answer from Kamen Goranchev doesn't work for me.

I have used ADT's feature "Extract include..." from the layout editor to extract some commonly used badges as a list of TextView-elements. So the Extract-include-tool wrapped my TextView-Elements in a merge-tag, which usually would be fine.

But, according to the very helpful sourcecode-link from boiledwater I see in line 888 https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/java/android/view/LayoutInflater.java#L888, the layout-attributes from the include-tag itself are only parsed if the include doesn't have the merge-tag as its root-element.

So I removed the merge-tag from the include and used another ViewGroup-tag like e.g. FrameLayout. Then the margins in the include-tag are working as expected.

You should add the android:layout_width and android:layout_height attributes in the include tag. Otherwise, the margins are not taken into consideration.

However, if you want to override layout attributes using the <include> tag, you must override both android:layout_height and android:layout_width in order for other layout attributes to take effect.

https://developer.android.com/training/improving-layouts/reusing-layouts.html#Include

include tag support below properties:

1. Any android:layout_* attributes which you can overwrite.

2. android:id attribute.

3. layout attribute.
4. android:visibility attribute.

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Etc: include android:id=”@+id/news_title” android:layout_width=”match_parent” android:layout_height=”match_parent” layout=”@layout/title”/>

Please read: https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/java/android/view/LayoutInflater.java#L777
http://developer.android.com/training/improving-layouts/reusing-layouts.html