Why Do Listview Items Not Grow to Wrap Their Content

Why do ListView items not grow to wrap their content?

I managed to fix this, but I don't understand why.

As I mentioned, I had set the layout_height of the list item layout to wrap_content (since fill_parent is meaningless here, considering that a ListView is indefinitely tall).

However, I had set the layout_height of all views inside that layout to fill_parent. The problem disappeared when setting them to wrap_content instead.

This raises two other questions:

1) What are the semantics of a view asking to fill_parent, when the parent wraps_content? Which size request takes precedence?

2) How would I ever make a view fill a list item if fill_parent apparently doesn't work?

Thanks for your input guys.

listview and recyclerview doesnot wrap content with count

This is because of your linearlayout with vertical orientation its keeping space for the lower views like radioGroups .Set height of listview dynamically use

public static void setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(final ListView listView) {
    listView.post(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            ListAdapter listAdapter = listView.getAdapter();
            if (listAdapter == null) {
                return;
            }
            int totalHeight = listView.getPaddingTop() + listView.getPaddingBottom();
            int listWidth = listView.getMeasuredWidth();
            for (int i = 0; i < listAdapter.getCount(); i++) {
                View listItem = listAdapter.getView(i, null, listView);
                listItem.measure(
                        View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(listWidth, View.MeasureSpec.EXACTLY),
                        View.MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, View.MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED));

                totalHeight += listItem.getMeasuredHeight();
                Log.d("listItemHeight " + listItem.getMeasuredHeight(), "********");
            }

            Log.d("totalHeight " + totalHeight, "********");

            ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = listView.getLayoutParams();
            params.height = (totalHeight + (listView.getDividerHeight() * (listAdapter.getCount() - 1)));
            listView.setLayoutParams(params);
            listView.requestLayout();

        }
    });
}

Android List wrap content

According to the Android developers as seen in this Google I/O 2010 video , the ListView's height cannot be set to wrap_content. And when it is , the first three child elements are considered for the height. The others are simply not included.

Try setting the ListView's height at runtime. Or even better set it to FILL_PARENT.

ListView not getting space to show content on smaller screens

From what I read about that issue, you should specify the Views on top as header of the list, and the'll scroll properly.

Afaik this only works if the list is non-empty, as the empty view replaces the whole list including headers.

`ListView` content being added at bottom instead of top

add this attrubut to your list view android:stackFromBottom="false"

ListView not displaying items correctly

There is a 'View' property to a ListView that can be one of five different settings - make sure that is set to the 'Details' option. (For more information on the different options click here).

You will also need an ImageList if you don't have one already - add images to it and then add it as the SmallImageList property of the ListView to be able to assign items images.
The first column will be the text for your item. For the remaining columns you will need sub-items for each item - in the order that you want them displayed.

In order to show sub items you will need to ensure that there are enough columns in the columns collection to show all of them - one for the title and image of each item and then one each for the sub-items.

Sorry if you knew some of this already, just trying to cover any possible issues you may have. Hope this helps.

Listview data model updated but items not displaying

I found the problem. I had several CardView objects inside a LinearLayout, which itself was inside a ScrollView. As soon as I removed the ScrollView, the List inside the Card displayed properly. This has unfortunately created another problem in that I can no longer scroll the page to see later cards, which I have not yet found a solution for, but that is a different topic.

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