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

Instead of editing my previous answer, here's my actual version (after finally the case became the issue and I had to fix it)

    @Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec)
{
    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED, 0));

    int childHeight = getMeasuredHeight() - (getListPaddingTop() + getListPaddingBottom() +  getVerticalFadingEdgeLength() * 2);

    // on a first run let's have a space for at least one child so it'll trigger remeasurement
    int fullHeight = getListPaddingTop() + getListPaddingBottom() + childHeight*(getCount());

    int newChildHeight = 0;
    for (int x = 0; x

The trickiest part is that the onMeasure gets called twice, first for approx layout and then after items added for a precise one and both have to return sane results.