Layout below layout programatically inside Relative View - android

I'm trying to programatically add two views as children of a root RelativeLayout, when one view is below another.
Here's the root view (which also resides in another CoordinatorLayout, but I don't think it's related):
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
app:layout_behavior="#string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"/>
Now, here is one of the two layouts I'm trying to add programatically:
<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
android:id="#+id/recycler_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
app:layout_behavior="#string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"/>
and the other one:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/icon"
android:layout_width="30dp"
android:layout_height="30dp"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:background="#drawable/ic_group_members"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/icon"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/icon"
android:textSize="18sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:text="#string/members_title"/>
</RelativeLayout>
I added this with this code:
RelativeLayout container = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.container);
container.addView(topView);
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams lp = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
lp.addRule(RelativeLayout.BELOW, bottomView.getId());
bottomView.setLayoutParams(lp);
container.addView(bottomView);
The result is: the bottom view is not visible.
What I tried:
Changing the first RecyclerView's height to WRAP_CONTENT (thought it might fill all space and hide the bottom layout), which had no effect.
Instead of setting the LayoutParams to the bottom view, to:
container.addView(bottomView, lp);
But it didn't work either.
Using a LinearLayout instead of the RelativeLayout container, same behaviour either.
I have no more ideas what can cause this problem, and by looking at similar questions, nothing worked. Any ideas what am I doing wrong?

Your first view is RecyclerView, which is a scrollable view. It doesn't matter if you set the height wrap_content to RecyclerView/ListView. In all cases, it's going to fill the whole screen unless you set a specific height to the RecyclerView, obviously smaller than the device's height. The second view below RecyclerView would show up then. Here's what you can try:
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, HEIGHT_OF_VIEW);
recyclerView.setLayoutParams(params);

The LinearLayout approach should work.
Just mind that:
1) Container LinearLayout should have layout_height MATCH_PARENT
2) RecyclerView should have layout_height of 0 and layout_weight of 1
If instead you want to keep the RelativeLayout approach try:
1) BottomLayout with rule RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM
2) RecyclerView with rule RelativeLayout.ABOVE
Example 2nd approach:
RelativeLayout containerLayout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.container);
RelativeLayout bottomLayout = new RelativeLayout(this);
bottomLayout.setId(R.id.bottom_id);
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams bottomLayoutParams = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
bottomLayoutParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM);
bottomLayout.setLayoutParams(bottomLayoutParams);
bottomLayout.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED);
TextView bottomTextView = new TextView(this);
bottomTextView.setText("Bottom Layout");
bottomLayout.addView(bottomTextView);
containerLayout.addView(bottomLayout);
RecyclerView recyclerView = new RecyclerView(this);
RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
params.addRule(RelativeLayout.ABOVE, R.id.bottom_id);
recyclerView.setLayoutParams(params);
recyclerView.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);
containerLayout.addView(recyclerView);

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Here is a sample image in horizontal scrolling:
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Put 0 to remove drawable,
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see the documentation here, it may help you.
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