How to show Fixed Number of Rows in a listView

Question

I want to display only 5 rows in a ListView and rest of them should be scrollable.So far i have tried this

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <EditText 
        android:id="@+id/txtFilename"
        android:layout_width="375dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="10dp" />

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/ListView01"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:scrollbarSize="2dp"
        android:

        /> 



     <LinearLayout 
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="@color/gray"
        android:padding="5dp" >

        <Button 
            android:id="@+id/btnOk"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="OK"/>

        <Button 
            android:id="@+id/btnCancel"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="CANCEL"/>
    </LinearLayout>  


</LinearLayout>

and in java code

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    private ListView list1;

    private String array[] = { "Iphone", "Tutorials", "Gallery", "Android",

    "item 1", "item 2", "item3", "item 4" };
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        //parentLayout.add(childLayout);

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        list1 = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.ListView01);

        // By using setAdpater method in listview we an add string array in

        // list.

        list1.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter(this,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, array));

    }

have any idea how to achieve it

Android mobile comes in different screen size. so in small size screen how can u show 5 items. — Senthil, May 24 '13 at 10:45
You can check this:This is possibly duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7509929/android-how-to-set-fixed-no5-of-rows-shows-in-listview-then-after-scroll — Sandeep, May 24 '13 at 10:49
you can use two different listview make first one fixed and remaining item in next listview — Iftikar Urrhman Khan, May 24 '13 at 10:53
@vsk assume that i am not using small screen mobile devices iam using Tablets. — , May 24 '13 at 10:54
@IftikarUrrhmanKhan that will cause code complexity in my app so not preferable. if have any good idea you can post the code. — , May 24 '13 at 10:55
i think for that you need to set listviews height to fixed size.. — NaserShaikh, May 24 '13 at 11:33

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 27 '13 at 11:13

Here i am Just Modifying Your Layout just check it out!!

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <EditText 
        android:id="@+id/txtFilename"
        android:layout_width="375dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="10dp" />
<LinearLayout
         android:layout_width="fill_parent"
         android:layout_height="300dip">
    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/ListView01"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:scrollbarSize="2dp"


        /> 


</LinearLayout>
     <LinearLayout 
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="@color/gray"
        android:padding="5dp" >

        <Button 
            android:id="@+id/btnOk"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="OK"/>

        <Button 
            android:id="@+id/btnCancel"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="CANCEL"/>
    </LinearLayout>  


</LinearLayout>

Thanks for my time its exactly what i want. – May 27 '13 at 11:16 — , May 27 '13 at 11:16

NaserShaikh · Answer 2 · 2013-05-27T07:20:52.570

I have written Demo for this Like:

if you want to fix Height of ListView to 5 items. then you have to set Height of ListView pragmatically by calculating listItems height.

First you need to create Layout for List Item and give it some fixed height, here i'm added height in Tag cause runtime i was getting layouts height as 0.

This is ListItem Layout

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/relativeLayout"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:background="@android:color/black"
    android:tag="40"
    android:layout_height="40dp" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="XXX"
        android:textColor="@android:color/darker_gray"
        android:textSize="30sp" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/text"
        android:text="ZZZ"
        android:textColor="@android:color/darker_gray"
        android:textSize="30sp" />

</RelativeLayout>

and to set Height of ListView:

list    =   (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listView1);

    adapter = new Adapter(MainActivity.this, setter);
    list.setAdapter(adapter);        

    RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lstViewParams = (LayoutParams) list.getLayoutParams();        
    View lisItemInflatedView = View.inflate(this, R.layout.item, null);        
    RelativeLayout relLayoutInLstItem = (RelativeLayout) lisItemInflatedView.findViewById(R.id.relativeLayout);       
    final float scale = this.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
    int pixels = (int) ( Integer.parseInt( relLayoutInLstItem.getTag().toString() ) * scale + 0.5f);    
    int listHeigt = pixels  * 5 + 5;       
    lstViewParams.height = listHeigt;

here's the screenshot..

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Hope this will Help.

its my ListItem.. where i can have name and contact no. u need to worry about how many views are there in your list item. just get height of your list item and multiply it.. — NaserShaikh, May 27 '13 at 07:12
i can't. i have given u more than enough. you need to put some effort. — NaserShaikh, May 27 '13 at 09:00
its very simple if you want to fixed number of Listview Items in listview you can put the listview in a linearlayout. — Abhijit Chakra, May 27 '13 at 11:07
if he want to display 5 items approx he can use 300dip that will display nearly 5 Items and the rest of will come as scrollable if he has more than 5 Items. — Abhijit Chakra, May 27 '13 at 11:14

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