Limit Height of Listview on Android

Limit height of ListView on Android

I had this exact issue and to solve it I created two seperate LinearLayouts to house the ListView and Button respectively. From there I put both in another Linear Layout and set that container's android:orientation to vertical. I also set the weight of the the LinearLayout that housed the ListView to 0.1 but I dont know if that has any effect. From there, you can set the height of the bottom container (that has your button) to whatever height you would like.

EDIT this is what i mean:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_weight="0.1"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/ListView01"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:dividerHeight="2px"></ListView>
</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="45px"
    android:background="@drawable/drawable"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/moreButton"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:background="@drawable/btn_more2"
        android:paddingRight="20px" />

</LinearLayout>

The above solution will fix the button the the bottom of the screen.

To have the button float at the bottom of the list, change the height of ListView01 to wrap_content:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_weight="0.1"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/ListView01"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:dividerHeight="2px"></ListView>
</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="45px"
    android:background="@drawable/drawable"
    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/moreButton"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:background="@drawable/btn_more2"
        android:paddingRight="20px" />
</LinearLayout>

How to set the max height of a list view

here you go

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.transport.ScreenDelivery">

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/bottom_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="horizontal">

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/textView_expectedSum"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:paddingBottom="5dp"
                android:paddingTop="5dp"
                android:text="Очаквана сума"
                android:textSize="16sp"
                tools:text="Очаквана сума" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/textView_expectedSumNum"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_weight="0.5"
                android:paddingBottom="5dp"
                android:paddingTop="5dp"
                android:text="-"
                android:textSize="16sp"
                tools:text="-" />

        </LinearLayout>

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="horizontal">

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/textView_signature"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:paddingBottom="5dp"
                android:paddingTop="5dp"
                android:text="Подпис"
                android:textSize="16sp"
                tools:text="Подпис" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/textView_signatureField"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_weight="0.5"
                android:paddingBottom="5dp"
                android:paddingTop="5dp"
                android:textSize="16sp" />

        </LinearLayout>

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="horizontal">

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/textView_returnSum"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:paddingBottom="5dp"
                android:paddingTop="5dp"
                android:text="Сума за връщане"
                android:textSize="16sp"
                tools:text="Сума за връщане" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/_returnSumField"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_weight="0.5"
                android:paddingBottom="5dp"
                android:paddingTop="5dp"
                android:textSize="16sp" />

        </LinearLayout>

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="horizontal">

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:orientation="horizontal">

                <TextView
                    android:id="@+id/textView_remarks"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:paddingBottom="5dp"
                    android:paddingTop="5dp"
                    android:text="Бележка"
                    android:textSize="16sp"
                    tools:text="Бележка" />
            </LinearLayout>

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_weight="0.5"
                android:orientation="vertical">

                <Spinner
                    android:id="@+id/spinner_note"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:background="@android:drawable/btn_dropdown"
                    android:spinnerMode="dropdown" />

                <EditText
                    android:id="@+id/editText_note"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:hint=""
                    android:inputType="text"
                    android:visibility="gone" />
            </LinearLayout>

        </LinearLayout>

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:baselineAligned="false"
            android:orientation="horizontal">

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:orientation="horizontal">

                <TextView
                    android:id="@+id/textView_image"
                    android:layout_width="269dp"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_weight="1"
                    android:paddingBottom="5dp"
                    android:paddingTop="5dp"
                    android:text="Снимка"
                    android:textSize="16sp"
                    tools:text="Снимка" />

            </LinearLayout>

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_weight="0.5"
                android:orientation="horizontal">

                <Button
                    android:id="@+id/button_takePhoto"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_marginRight="150dp"
                    android:onClick="takePhoto"
                    android:text="Снимай"
                    tools:text="Снимай" />

                <ImageView
                    android:id="@+id/imageView_deliveryPhoto"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:contentDescription="Снимка на доставката"
                    android:maxHeight="200dp"
                    android:maxWidth="200dp"
                    android:minHeight="50dp"
                    android:minWidth="50dp"
                    app:srcCompat="?android:attr/alertDialogIcon" />
            </LinearLayout>

        </LinearLayout>

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:orientation="horizontal">

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/button_save"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="Запази"
                tools:text="Запази" />

        </LinearLayout>
    </LinearLayout>

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/top_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textView_customer"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="Клиент"
            android:textSize="20sp"
            tools:text="Клиент" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textView_palletCount"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="Брой палета"
            android:textSize="20sp"
            tools:text="Брой палета" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textView_palletCountNum"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="-"
            android:textSize="20sp"
            tools:text="-" />

    </LinearLayout>

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/listView_pallets"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_above="@id/bottom_layout"
        android:layout_below="@id/top_layout" />

</RelativeLayout>

Sample Image

How to limit the height of a ListView within a GridLayout?

This answer extends my comments to the question and attempts to explain why this cannot be done with XML via GridLayout's attributes.

Adding GridLayout to the framework allowed solving a range of drawbacks regarding nested layouts, one of wich was "inability to control alignment along both horizontal and vertical axes simultaneously" as described in the article New Layout Widgets: Space and GridLayout by Philip Milne.

This alignment control is performed by layout_gravity parameter whose description states that the parameter "specifies how a component should be placed in its group of cells", (NOT within a root layout). Basically, it's the same as that of LinearLayout, which also mentioned in the article: "Alignment/gravity also works just like gravity in LinearLayout..." And as we know, for LinearLayouts, once a view has taken the whole height of the screen (like ListView in your case), the views below it go behind the screen if the layout oriention was set to "vertical".

If we look at the GridLayout.LayoutParams documentation we won't find any parameter which would allow a component within a cell group to stick to a certain position of the parent layout and stay at the position independent of the size of other components within the same group; similar to the layout_align[...] parameters of a RelativeLayout.

My best guess about the absence of this kind of parameters in GridLayout is better alignment control compare to nested layouts.

I'm sure you know a solution(s) for your problem using an approach other than GridLayout's attributes. I'll just suggest one to make the answer look accomplished:

<GridLayout
    ... >

    <RelativeLayout
       ... >

        <TextView
            ...
            android:id="@+id/tv"
            android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" />

        <ListView
            ...
            android:layout_above="@id/tv">
         </ListView>

    </RelativeLayout>

</GridLayout>

Does ListView has a size limit?

The listview is virtualized so it has practically no size limit. So you dont have any limit to add the number of elements in it.

You may check this a good tutorial video

Limit Height of Listview on Android