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I am using a ListView with just a few items. The items are to be vertically enlarged to fill the area given to the list view. So instead of:

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I am not sure how to do this. I looked at using getView on my Adapter, but the ViewGroup return 0 for the height, and 0 for the child count. When I make my adapter have a ListView reference, I can get the child count, but height is still 0.

I'm not sure if I need to extend ListView or ViewGroup or what I need to override.

Thanks.

After much digging, i found the issue is the mysterious Layout Inflater issue described here. Once I changed it to inflate(layoutIdToInflate, parent, false); (having been inflate(layoutIdToInflate, null); the heights started working.

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    This older post asks the same question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11044595/listview-to-cover-entire-screen-in-android – user7610 Mar 31 '14 at 14:47

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You can't do that with ListView via xml. But you can set minHeight for your ListView item layout programmatically.

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  • Thanks, but how can I even do the minHeight calculation? I can get the count, but the height of the ListView as far as I can tell is always 0. – Scorp1us Mar 31 '14 at 14:56
  • get the height of the `ListView` container. – agamov Mar 31 '14 at 15:18
  • It always returns 0. ` int count = mContentListView.getCount(); int height = mContentListView.getHeight();` count =5, height = 0; – Scorp1us Mar 31 '14 at 15:40
  • no, I meant the parent view of your `ListView`. Sorry, my English is bad). Or you can use `getMeasuredHeight()` method. – agamov Mar 31 '14 at 15:53