Authorative way to override onMeasure()?

Question

What\'s the correct way of overriding onMeasure()? I\'ve seen various approaches. For example, Professional Android Development uses MeasureSpec to calculate the di

Answer 1

I guess, setLayoutParams and recalculating the measurements is a workaround to resize the child views correctly, as this is usually done in the derived class's onMeasure.

However, this rarely works correct (for whatever reason...), better invoke measureChildren (when deriving a ViewGroup) or try something similar when necessary.