WRAP_CONTENT not working after dynamically adding views

Question

I\'m trying to create a fragment that lays out a series of custom views dynamically. The main content for this layout is a RelativeLayout nested in a LinearLayout (to center

Answer 1

Try calling requestLayout on the children.

I recently had a similar problem and was similarly frustrated that things like invalidate and requestLayout seemed to do nothing. What I didn't understand is that requestLayout doesn't propagate down to its children; it propagates up to its parents. To re-measure something that was previously measured, I had to call requestLayout on the View that changed rather than the View I actually wanted to resize.