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How to make recyclerview hight same as tallest item when multiline text present?

I am using recyclerview where item can have multiline text.the problem arise when one item has single line text and other has multiple lines of text.one item get bigger than other.
I want item height will be same as talles item.How i can achive this?

You can give fixed height to TextView. Like
android:layout_height="50dp"
Or you can set fix number of lines of TextView
android:lines="2"

This will help you inside your Textview tag in the listItem
android:maxLines="1"
android:marqueeRepeatLimit="4"
This will help text to scroll if its long engouh for one line

Empty space between listview header and first item

I've created an android application with a ListView. I've added both a header and footer to the list. But when adding a divider/separator it also creates an empty space between the header and the first ListView item. It does the same for the last ListView item and the footer.
The empty space is equivalent to the size of the divider between all the ListView items, with the difference that it doesn't draw the divider and just leaves empty space. I thought I found the solution with the xml attributes 'Footer dividers enabled' and 'Header dividers enabled'. But when setting them to false, it doesn't change anything. I even tried to set them programmatically with
list.setFooterDividerEnabled(false);
list.setHeaderDividerEnabled(false);
But it just doesn't work. Any way to fix that problem? I just don't want the empty space to be there, I want the first item to fit exactly to the header (same for the footer).

I stumbled upon the same problem, but in a slightly different situation than yours. My ListView has a header (a search box), but the first item below it contains a section header (a date, or a letter) rather than being a regular list item (with the actual content in form of an image, some text, and so on). As such, I want it not to be selectable, so in my custom adapter I have overridden areAllItemsEnabled to return false.
Big mistake, because that's exactly the culprit. See, it appears that, by design, the ListView implementation only draw dividers between two enabled items, but still reserve space for dividers between an enabled item and a disabled one even if those dividers will not be drawn. The fact this is a conscious design decision does not mean it's not stupid, of course. Most weird of all, this dividers drawing policy is based just on the value returned by areAllItemsEnabled instead of the values returned by single calls to isEnabled for subsequent items.
Thus, to work around it, I just had to return true from areAllItemsEnabled (I kept the overridden method and add a comment about this issue, otherwise I would not be able to remember it a month from now): lo and behold, white space disappeared, replaced by a divider. Now, if I want to show the ListView header and the first section header as being exactly adjacent, I just have to choose a divider color that's the same as the section header color.
Really hope that's the same case as yours, or that my solution helps you in some other way.

I tried a solution by 幻影浪子 that works (based on android-pulltorefresh):
View Layout (header.xml):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<ProgressBar
style="#android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Small.Inverse"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_margin="16dp"
android:layout_marginTop="2dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Inflating View:
m_headerView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.header, this, false);
Displaying View:
m_headerView.setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0);
m_headerView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
Hiding View:
m_headerView.setPadding(0, -1000, 0, 0);
m_headerView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
It worked perfectly in our project. I hope it is helpful.

In getview method you can check if the item is first or last and set custom devider which will be of 0 height or single pixel height of transparent color.

goto the ListView properties in android layout and search for spacing tag... some how in android, when creating new layouts, it will defaults creation is spacing header spacing and border properties. check it , if it is available then remove it

Didn't find a great solution.
Set dividerHeight="0dp" and created my own dividers manually - either directly in the layout XML or dynamically in the adapter if you need more precise control.

Just do
list.setDividerHeight(0)
That should take care of it.

How to make height more than wrap_content in Android?

I have a ListView where each objects in the list has the parameter:
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
However, this makes the objects hard to press. I don't want to increase the font size to achieve this. Instead, can I add a buffer to wrap_content?
I'd like to implement something like:
android:layout_height="wrap_content" + 10dp
How do I do this?
Thanks

Add some margin or padding to your views. Alternatively, embed a <View> element with fixed 10dip height.

you can use padding property so its automatically set height & width what you want...
android:padding="10dip"

you would have to do that programmatically most likely. Because that method wont work.
Not exact coding but along the lines:
View what_i_want_to_resize = (View)findViewById(R.id.myview);
View view_with_the_size = (View)findViewById(R.id.sizeview);
what_i_want_to_resize.setMinimumHeight(view_with_the_size.getMeasuredHeight() + 10);
Something along those lines. It is impossible to do it with XML.
You can also add padding to it.
android:padding="10dp"
That will make a padding or cushion between the views.

Try using android:layout_margin="10dip" or padding.

You have to give android:layout_height="50dp" or any figure directly

How to prevent TextView from resizing its container

Take a look at my layout
http://pastebin.com/6tQVm3Rk
My problem is that the textviews (named header1 to 5) are resizing its containers when a certain amount of letters are written into it, although there is still some space left.
What changes do I have to make that the layout stays in its original state independent from the amount of text located in the headers?

This might be because of this attribute.
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
If you want your textview to have only one line you can use android:singleline="true"

Add the attribute
android:maxLength="2"
to the textview. This way you can limit the number of characters.

I think its better to use Relative layout instead Linear layout in the XML so that objects in Relative layout are easy to manage dynamically, all you need to do is that put all those text views in the Relative layout and set these parameters:
layout align left:
layout align right:
And other solution which is not appropriate is that fix the size of text view then it will not expand.
And please see the Documentation for further details of Relative Layout.

Set the width and heigth of your textview to a fixed amount of dp. This will prevent the textview from streching beyond the width and height you declared. Like this:
android:layout_width="50dp"
android:layout_heigth="50dp"

For me the solution was to use
android:layout_width="0dp"
together with
android:maxLines="1"

How to set a long string in a text view in a single line with horizontal scroll

actually i have keep one scrollview. Inside that scroll view I set one textview at run time I want to set text in that textview. The string which I'm going to set is some what big in length so i could not get the string in a single line and i can get my string two or three lines. My scroll view layout width size is 250px. I dont want to exceed that size...My expectation is i want to see that string within that scrollview as single line if the string is exceeds the scroll size then it should horizontally scroll in text view. I tried some functions like setting horizontal scroll to scrollview and textview but nothing is work out.
Pls help me how to solve this problem.
urs,
s.kumaran.

you have to use these two Xml attributes in your TextView widget:
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:singleLine="true"
So your xml layout must contain something like this:
<TextView
android:text="Single-line text view that scrolls automatically if the text is too long to fit in the widget"
android:singleLine="true"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:marqueeRepeatLimit ="marquee_forever"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
you can get the correspondant method for these attributes if you are creating Your TextView with code, refer to TextView documentation :
setHorizontallyScrolling(boolean)
setTransformationMethod(TransformationMethod)
setMarqueeRepeatLimit(int)

try this ,,
TextView.setHorizontallyScrolling(true)
TextView.setLines(1);
where did you add the textview..Inside scrollview we able to add only one view...

Take TextView and HorizontalScrollView. Just put textview inside the HorizontalScrollView. And yes make sure to mentioned android:singleLine="true" inside the TextView.

I had the same issue with a TextView inside a table and nothing detailed here solved the fact that it wouldn't scroll horizontally (automatically, which might not be the desired effect from OP, but it's quite unclear).
While comparing some code that did work, I found out the TextView must be selected for scrolling to start:
TextView text_view = new TextView(context);
text_view.setLines(1);
text_view.setHorizontallyScrolling(true);
text_view.setMarqueeRepeatLimit(-1); // At this point the view is not scrolling!
...
text_view.setSelected(true); // Get scrolling to start
Seems crazy, but it works.

for me, this one line in the EditText xml was enough:
android:singleLine="true"

You didn't specify if this was in XML or java code, but here's the java code to get that working:
// Allow textView to scroll
textView.setSingleLine(true);
textView.setHorizontallyScrolling(true);
textView.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.MARQUEE);
textView.setMarqueeRepeatLimit(-1);
textView.setSelected(true);
textView.setPadding(10, 0, 10, 0);
The only unnecessary item here is the padding, which I find to look best so the text does not touch the border of our 250px TextView.