Best way to create buttons dynamically - android-layout

Question

I want to create button dynamically in my application. The buttons need to be created based on items fetched from database. What is the best way to achieve this. Should I go for grid layout or Linear layout. My layout is simple with max 3 buttons per row. Once the first row is complete the buttons should be placed in second row.
I scanned lot of similar questions(some had grid layout other were using Linear layout) but unable to decide what is the optimum way to implement this.
I am complete newbie in android application, so any code snippets would be really helpful. Apologies if someone feels this is a duplicate question (I searched a lot before posting but didn't find appropriate answer to layout to be used.)
Thanks.

Answer 1

Please try to use gridView same as bellow code.
// in xml write this code
<GridView
android:id="#+id/calendar"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:numColumns="3" />
// grid adapter
public class GridAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
private final Context _context;
private final List<String> list;
public GridAdapter(Context context, ArrayList<String> list) {
super();
this._context = context;
this.list = list;
}
public String getItem(int position) {
return list.get(position);
}
#Override
public int getCount() {
return list.size();
}
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
Button button = new Button(_context);
button.setText("button" + list.get(position));
return button;
}
#Override
public long getItemId(int position) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
return 0;
}
}
/// in oncreate
gridView.setAdapter(new GridAdapter(getApplicationContext(),list);