custom listview adapter getView method being called multiple times, and in no coherent order

Question

I have a custom list adapter:

class ResultsListAdapter extends ArrayAdapter {

in the overridden \'getView\' method I do a

Answer 1

For all of you who still (After setting the height of the ListView to match_parent) are stuck (like I was):

You also have to set the height of the parent layout to match_parent.

See example below. The LinearLayout is the parent here: