ListView with the fixed number of items to display

Question

is there any standard way in Android for creating a list view covering content by width, but with the height big enough for displaying a fixed number of rows?

For example, I would want my scrollable listview to pop up in the middle of a screen/activity displaying exactly 6 items out of 20 at a time.

What if someone is using your app on a large tablet? Do you really want to restrict the user to seeing 6 rows at at time? Sounds rather limiting. — Peri Hartman, May 13 '15 at 22:51
That should be fine. My items are going to wrap images different per size/density, I don't think it will be too bad. — Sergey Solovyev, May 13 '15 at 23:07
Well, I don't really have an answer for you. But I think the way to do it is to size your items so 6 of them exactly fill the space allocated for the list. — Peri Hartman, May 14 '15 at 01:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '15 at 04:31

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Try this.

adapter.setViewBinder(new SimpleAdapter.ViewBinder() {  
    public boolean setViewValue(View view, Object data, String textRepresentation) {  
        LinearLayout.LayoutParams params = (LinearLayout.LayoutParams) view
                .getLayoutParams();
        params.height = Math.round(mScreenHeight/ 6); 

        return true;  
        }  
    }  
);

answered May 14 '15 at 04:31

Cbibejs

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Sounds like this code stretches each of the views to make 6 of them to fit the full screen? but I don't really want to cover full screen, perhaps I can do something using getView/getCount methods of the ListView adapter. – Sergey Solovyev May 14 '15 at 10:56

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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The solution from wrap_content for a listview's width works ( see getWidestView ). Same thing can be applied for height ( measure a height using fake parent and *6 after )

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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answered May 14 '15 at 11:09

Sergey Solovyev

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ListView with the fixed number of items to display

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