android listview display all available items without scroll with static header

Question

I\'m having a little difficulties while trying to get a certain layout to work: I want to have list. List does not have to be scrollable, but should be shown completely. But

Answer 1

If all items has the same height

        int totalItemsHeight = baseDictionaries.size() * item.getMeasuredHeight();
        int totalDividersHeight = listView.getDividerHeight() * (baseDictionaries.size() - 1);
        int totalPadding = listView.getPaddingBottom() + listView.getPaddingTop();

        LinearLayout.LayoutParams lp = (LinearLayout.LayoutParams) listTranslationWords.getLayoutParams();
        lp.height = totalItemsHeight + totalDividersHeight + totalPadding;
        listTranslationWords.setLayoutParams(lp);

Answer 2

Iam supprised no one see this.U cant have two scrolls on the same layout. 1st u have a scrollview and then u have a list, i bet u are killing some android good practices there.

Answer 3

Set android:layout_height="fill_parent" in your LinearLayout

Answer 4

I just did it using setting params of ListView

public static void setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(ListView listView) {

    //this comes from value from xml tag of each item
    final int HEIGHT_LARGE=75;
    final int HEIGHT_LARGE=50;
    final int HEIGHT_LARGE=35;
    ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = listView.getLayoutParams();

    int screenSize = getResources().getConfiguration().screenLayout & Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_MASK;

    switch(screenSize) {

    case Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_LARGE:
         params.height =(int) (HEIGHT_LARGE*size);
         break;
    case Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_NORMAL:
         params.height =(int) (HEIGHT_NORMAL*size);
         break;
    case Configuration.SCREENLAYOUT_SIZE_SMALL:
          params.height =(int) (HEIGHT_SMALL*size);
          break;
    }
    listView.setLayoutParams(params);  
}

Answer 5

I had a ListView in my layout and wanted to use a library which can't handle a ListView here because it wraps it into a ScrollView. The best solution for me is based on Fedor´s answer.

Since I already got an ArrayAdapter for the ListView I wanted to re-use it:

LinearLayout listViewReplacement = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.listViewReplacement);
NamesRowItemAdapter adapter = new NamesRowItemAdapter(this, namesInList);
for (int i = 0; i < adapter.getCount(); i++) {
    View view = adapter.getView(i, null, listViewReplacement);
    listViewReplacement.addView(view);
}

For me this works fine because I just need to display dynamic data varying from 1 to 5 elements. I just had to add my own divider.

Answer 6

The solution I used is to replace ListView with LinearLayout. You can create all your items inside LinearLayout, they will all be displayed. So there's really no need to use ListView.

LinearLayout list = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.list_recycled_parts);
for (int i=0; i<products.size(); i++) {
  Product product = products.get(i);
  View vi = inflater.inflate(R.layout.product_item, null);
  list.addView(vi);
}