How to configure ListView to automatically change its height?

Question

I have three ListView widgets in the same LinearLayout. Something like this (I\'m omitting XML elements that are not relevant in this example):

Answer 1

I've implemented it this way (code is work in progress so it's more a idea source than solution):

package com.customcontrols;
public class NoScrollListView extends ListView
{
    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec)
    {
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED, 0) );

        // here I assume that height's being calculated for one-child only, seen it in ListView's source which is actually a bad idea
        int childHeight = getMeasuredHeight() - (getListPaddingTop() + getListPaddingBottom() +  getVerticalFadingEdgeLength() * 2);

        int fullHeight = getListPaddingTop() + getListPaddingBottom() + childHeight*(getCount());

        setMeasuredDimension(getMeasuredWidth(), fullHeight);
    }
}

the calculation's not perfect, but it's close and works so far. after that you just create a layout like this:

ScrollView com.customcontrol.NoScrollListView com.customcontrol.NoScrollListView com.customcontrol.NoScrollListView /ScrollView

The scrollView's crucial since you can easily run out of screen bounds.

PS. The calculation's rectum-driven since most of the calculation methods in ListView&Co are package private which is quite a strange choice for publicly inheritable classes for UI.