ImageView taking too much vertical space

Question

i am working on a project with a staggered gridview that can support varying height for each nested view,

Answer 1

I had a similar problem and I resolved it by overriding onMeasure method of RelativeLayout.

package com.etsy.android.grid.util;

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;

public class DynamicHeightRelativeLayout extends RelativeLayout {

    public DynamicHeightRelativeLayout(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public DynamicHeightRelativeLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public DynamicHeightRelativeLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {

        // Hack - This causes the height of RelativeLayout to match
        //        it's content when RelativeLayout is shown in StaggeredGridView. 
        heightMeasureSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED);

        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
    }

}

Then I used this class in XML layout file: