Background of List items is stretching more than height?

Question

I have a listview with a custom adapter (tile) design. Everything should work fine but the thing is that the til (listview item background) stretches too much despite me giving layout_height a fixed value. Here's the code:

This is the xml for the custom tile. Notice the 85dp fixed height. The background drawable should NOT stretch beyond this hight?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="85dp"
    android:background="@drawable/tile_job" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/title"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="9dp"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginLeft="13dp"
        android:text="Title" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/pickup"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="38dp"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/title"
        android:textSize="11dp"
        android:text="Pickup Address" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/destination"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/pickup"
        android:layout_below="@+id/pickup"
        android:layout_marginTop="6dp"
        android:textSize="11dp"
        android:text="Destination Address" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/time"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_above="@+id/destination"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_marginRight="40dp"
        android:text="Time"
        android:textSize="11dp" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/date"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/time"
        android:layout_below="@+id/time"
        android:text="Date"
        android:layout_marginTop="7dp"
        android:textSize="11dp" />

</RelativeLayout>

Now I'm using this in a simple listview:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/app_bg" >

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/relativeLayout1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="50dp"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:background="@drawable/strip_top" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/strip_text"
            style="@style/TopStripText"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:text="Locate" />
    </RelativeLayout>

    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="280dp"
        android:layout_height="440dp"
        android:layout_below="@+id/relativeLayout1"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
        android:background="@drawable/bg_booking" >

        <ListView
            android:id="@+id/activebookings"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_alignParentTop="true" >
        </ListView>
    </RelativeLayout>

What is causing the tile to overstretch vertically?

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EDIT Here is the requested code:

Inflation of the layout:

public class JobAdapter extends BaseAdapter
{
    private ArrayList<Job> bookingArrayList;
    private LayoutInflater mInflater;

    public JobAdapter(Context context, ArrayList<Job> results)
    {
        bookingArrayList = results;
        mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount()
    {
        return bookingArrayList.size();
    }

    @Override
    public Object getItem(int arg0)
    {
        return bookingArrayList.get(arg0);
    }

    @Override
    public long getItemId(int position)
    {
        return position;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
    {
        ViewHolder holder;
        if (convertView == null)
        {
            convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.tile_job, null);
            holder = new ViewHolder();
            holder.date = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.date);
            holder.time = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.time);
            holder.pickup = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.pickup);
            holder.destination = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.destination);
            holder.title = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.title);

            convertView.setTag(holder);
        }
        else
        {
            holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
        }

        holder.date.setText(bookingArrayList.get(position).getDate());
        holder.time.setText(bookingArrayList.get(position).getTime());
        holder.pickup.setText(bookingArrayList.get(position).getPickup());
        holder.destination.setText(bookingArrayList.get(position).getDestination());
        holder.title.setText(bookingArrayList.get(position).getTitle());

        return convertView;
    }

    static class ViewHolder
    {
        TextView date;
        TextView time;
        TextView pickup;
        TextView destination;
        TextView title;
    }
}

Answer 1

Your creating you row with following:

convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.tile_job, null);

Now try this:

convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.tile_job, parent, false);

If you don't attach the parent layout the layout parameters from xml will be ignored. You set false as you don't attach the view to the root right away (this happens automatically when the view is returned). You can read more about this issue here.