ListView Items Occupy Remaining Space in Vertical Orientation

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Good day all, have a small issue here. I have an EditText and a ListView inside a RelativeLayout. The ListView is populated by items in a string-array using an ArrayAdapter. The size of thr array is 5 and the ListView Items is a Table Layout with table row Layout Parameters set to both Fill_Parent same as the ListView Widget. Now I want the Listview Items to fill up and occupy the remaining screen space. but since they are only few Items, it behaves like it's using wrap_content. Any Idea how to stretch out this ListView Items? Thanks in Advance.

If you can use a linear layout instead of a relative layout it would solve all your problems. — user1667307, Dec 20 '12 at 13:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 20 '12 at 14:05

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Try this out:

<ListView
    android:id="@+id/yourListView"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">
</ListView>

answered Dec 20 '12 at 14:05

Ankit Dhadse

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fill_parent and match_parent provide the same behavior, mainly that the view will "fill" or "match" the space occupied by its parent view. Having said that, fill_parent is deprecated, so it would be better to set both the width and height attributes to "match_parent" – GrimmRanger Sep 25 '13 at 16:34

ListView Items Occupy Remaining Space in Vertical Orientation

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