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How to show other views after list view height set to fill_parent

To prevent multiple GetView calling I have set the height of ListView to fill_parent.
How to show other views than the ListView itself?
The following layout is inflated in a ViewPager:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="15dp" >
<ListView android:id="#+id/lv_viol_infraction"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
<include layout="#layout/activity_prontuario_home" />
</LinearLayout>
where the included layout is:
<?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="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="20dp" >
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/prontuariohome_scrollview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:scrollbars="none" >
.
.
.
.
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>
EDIT: This solution won't work for view higher than a button

I don't understand what you want to achieve, but if you NEED to have the height as fill_parent for some reason and can't be any other value, you can put the ListView with inside a LinearLayout with the height="0dp" and weight="1". So would be something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="15dp" >
<LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ListView android:id="#+id/lv_viol_infraction"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
</LinearLayout>
<include layout="#layout/activity_prontuario_home" />
</LinearLayout>

Try to use following code
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
in ListView tag

With android:layout_height="0dip" the view will take the rest of the free place

You said this solution is wont work:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ListView android:id="#+id/lv"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#android:color/white" android:layout_above="#+id/bt"/>
<Button android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/bt" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"/>
just add it a android:layout_above="#+id/bt" to listview.

I'm sorry for being not clear.
Here is the link of the (probably) main thread asked here in Sof about the issue I was talking about.
After some tries I'm happy to give you the solution of my problem.
Giving another layout above the ListView lets the LV cuts the space not filled by the ListView itself
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="15dp" >
<LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<ListView android:id="#+id/lv_viol_infraction"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
</LinearLayout>
<include layout="#layout/activity_prontuario_home" />
</LinearLayout>

How to anchor buttons at the bottom of the layout?

I'd like the OK / Cancel buttons to be anchored at the bottom (even when there's more items on the list that can be shown on the screen). Here's what it currently looks like:
The buttons are on the top, not on the bottom.
The layout that contains the buttons:
<TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:stretchColumns="true"
android:id="#+id/buttons_layout">
<TableRow>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnOK"
android:background="#color/pomegranate"
android:text="OK"
android:layout_gravity="fill_horizontal"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnCancel"
android:background="#color/wet_asphalt"
android:text="Cancel"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_gravity="fill_horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</TableRow>
</TableLayout>
The composite layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ListView android:id="#+id/options_list"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
</ListView>
<include layout="#id/buttons_layout"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_below="#id/options_list"/>
</RelativeLayout>
I followed the guidelines I read on http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/relative.html
I tried this answer - https://stackoverflow.com/a/6285438/168719 - it hasn't helped me.
I suspected that it might not work because the list view doesn't "know" how tall it is, so the button layout doesn't know where to place itself, either. But I ruled it out by setting the ListView height to an arbitrary value like 100dp. The buttons are still superimposed over it.
I fiddled with all the layout attributes, but I can't get it to work.
Apart from the solution, I would also like to know why mine doesn't work...

the layout should be something like this :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ListView android:id="#+id/options_list"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_above="#+id/layout_buttons" >
</ListView>
<include android:id="#+id/layout_buttons"
layout="#id/buttons_layout"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_height="wrap_parent"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>
</RelativeLayout>

you can use tab to do it
you can see this tutorial
Android Tab Layout Tutorial

you could try using it this way
<relativelayout1>
<relativelayout2 specify layout below listview with id="list">
<button1>
<button2>
</relativelayout2>
<listview id="list">
</listview>
</relativelayout1>
so this will ensure no matter how long your list is you always get the buttons below your list. so you can have a scrolling list and a static buttons below the list

try this. Put the include tag inside another RelativeLayout, then be sure ListView is above the new RelativeLayout
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/parentLayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/buttonsContent"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" >
<include
android:id="#+id/buttons"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
layout="#layout/buttons_layout" />
</RelativeLayout>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/options_list"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_above="#id/buttonsContent" >
</ListView>
</RelativeLayout>

Try like this
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_above="#+id/layout_buttons"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ListView android:id="#+id/options_list"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
</ListView>
</LinearLayout>
<include android:id="#+id/layout_buttons"
layout="#id/buttons_layout"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_height="wrap_parent"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"/>
</RelativeLayout>

Android textView scroll

I have been trying to develop an android app that contain an activity which is scrollable
and inside the activity, I have 2 textView which I want them to be scrollable as well.
My problem is that
whenever I touch inside the textView the scrolls show up but the main activity part which is the linearLayout directly steel the focus and no longer the textView scroll
the way I have it now is setup for the textView to scroll in the xml file I have done that.
and if I keep raising my finger and put it back on the screen trying to scroll the textView I can move a little bit but as I said, the layout that contains the textView capture the focus and leave me unable to scroll the textView.
I hope I did explain my problem very well.
Please any suggestion to help.
let me explain how the app is built first
first part is: the main(first) activity is a tabHost
which I defined as scrollable
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TabHost xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#android:id/tabhost"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrollView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="422dp" >
</FrameLayout>
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="63dp" >
</TabWidget>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</TabHost>
where I am having problem with is this activity
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:background="#color/light_gray_color"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:weightSum="1"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:baselineAligned="false">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/linearLayout3"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0.04">
<TextView
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:textColor="#color/black_color"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:text="#string/display_label"
android:id="#+id/display_label">
</TextView>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/linearLayout2"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="0.83"
android:baselineAligned="false"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/english_scrollView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="0.03" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/display_english_textView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="2px"
android:layout_marginRight="2px"
android:layout_weight="0.03"
android:background="#drawable/black_rectangle"
android:focusable="true"
android:paddingLeft="2px"
android:paddingRight="2px"
android:scrollbars="vertical"
android:textColor="#color/black_color" />
</ScrollView>
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/translation_scrollView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="0.03" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/display_translation_textView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="2px"
android:layout_marginRight="2px"
android:layout_weight="0.03"
android:background="#drawable/black_rectangle"
android:focusable="true"
android:paddingLeft="2px"
android:paddingRight="2px"
android:scrollbars="vertical"
android:textColor="#color/black_color" />
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

I guess you should cut <ScrollView> out of the first xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TabHost xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#android:id/tabhost"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<FrameLayout
android:id="#android:id/tabcontent"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="422dp" >
</FrameLayout>
<TabWidget
android:id="#android:id/tabs"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="63dp" >
</TabWidget>
</LinearLayout>
</TabHost>

My understanding is that you have a vertically scrolling activity, which contains two vertically scrolling text views? If so, you can't do it. Its not just a poor design choice, its literally impossible to tell which view the user intends to scroll when they make swipe motion. You can have horizontal scrolling inside a vertically scrolling view, or vice versa. You can't have horizontal scrolling inside horizontal scrolling or vertical scrolling inside vertical scrolling.
I believe this is mentioned in the listview talk in the 2010 google io conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDBM6wVEO70

How to place both listview and textview in one page in android?

I am displaying a TextView and below that a ListView in one page. My code is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:id="#+id/widget"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<RelativeLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:id="#+id/widgetlay"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txt1"
android:text=""
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
>
</TextView>
</RelativeLayout>
<ListView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:id="#+id/listlist"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1.0">
</ListView>
</RelativeLayout>
Here I am displaying the ListView data dynamically....but in my emulator it is displaying a TextView at the top and then the ListView with scroll...It is not expanding the list and instead it is scrolling with the content which is generated dynamically...Please tell me how to expand the entire ListView....
Thanks in advance

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<LinearLayout android:gravity="center|center_vertical"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent">
<TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="status"
android:id="#+id/txtvw1">
</TextView>
<ListView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:id="#+id/listlist"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
</ListView>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

<?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="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtvw1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="status" >
</TextView>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listlist"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_weight="1">
</ListView>
</LinearLayout>

You have an error here
<ListView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:id="#+id/listlist" //error here
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
</ListView>
the ListView is filled of the LinearLayout
so that you can't get the TextView.
instand of this
you can layout your view as follows:
<ListView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:id="#+id/listlist" //error here
android:layout_height="0"
android:layout_weight="1.0>
android:layout_weight="1.0" //this will make the list view filled with the rest of the screem
Further more
I suggest you use "match_parent" instand of "fill_parent"
this WAS CHANGED in the SDK level 8...

OK, now you use the RelativeLayout install of the LinearLayout
So you should add the relationship with your views in your layout.
You can layout as this:
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/widgetlay"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txt1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="" >
</TextView>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listlist"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/txt1" />
android:layout_below="#id/txt"----Indicate the relationship with the layout
The RelativeLayout does not have the attr "orientation" and "layout_weight". So I don't suggest you to use this layout, It can't be fixed with the screen height in that way.
The good layout is:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtvw1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="status" >
</TextView>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listlist"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1.0" />
Further more, what do you want to layout your views?

This is a part of my work. List view will appear in the middle of your screen and what ever u need at the top, put it in place of header() and things that u need in bottom of the screen , put it in place of footer(). U can use relative layout instead of the linear layout
Hope this helps.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<RelativeLayout android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="#+id/layout_header">
<include layout="#layout/header"/>
</RelativeLayout>
<LinearLayout android:layout_width="match_parent" android:gravity="center" android:orientation="horizontal" android:weightSum="1"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" android:id="#+id/layout_footer">
<include layout="#layout/footer" />
</LinearLayout>
<ListView android:id="#android:id/list" android:layout_below="#id/layout_header" android:layout_above="#id/layout_footer"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:visibility="visible" />
<!-- <TextView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/hello"
/> -->
</RelativeLayout>

I don't know what is meaning of expanding meaning here, but listView in scroll view dont behave normally. To resolve this issue you need to implement list view outside of scrollview.

I don't quite understand what you mean, but if you want to have the textView scroll with the content of the listView, you need to add it as a header in your listView.
Moreover, it is not a good idea to put a listview in a scrollview, the listview being scrollable, it messes with the scrollview mechanism.

You can NEVER ever place a listview in the SCrollView.It wont behave properly.Instead of it try using LinearLayout TextView ListView < /Linearlayout>

Android ListView doesn't expand the whole screen?

I've the following Activity:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/FiltersLayout" android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>
<ScrollView android:id="#+id/FiltersScroll"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1">
<ExpandableListView android:id="#+id/featureList"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:stretchColumns="*" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
</ExpandableListView>
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>
I need the ExpandableListView to scratch the screen, but it shows as the following:
![Anzroiz ListView][1]

Try changing the height of the ScrollView to fill_parent, but really you should omit the ScrollView entirely as a ListView provides its own scrolling.