How to get ListView to grow to the size of content

Question

So I have a fairly complex activity the parent being a linearlayout with a table with some basic info and buttons. Then a couple listviews that the user can add items to. So these listviews grow more and more as the user uses the app. The problem I'm running into is the Linearlayout is bigger then the resolution of the screen and so it needs to scroll. So the scrolling doesn't work on the Listviews. I've tried playing with changing the layout_height of the listview and its child element with no success. Is there a way to make these couple listviews expand out to the amount of children? Or am I going about this all wrong? If so what other controls can I use?

I'm open to any ideas. I really just don't know how to go about this.

Thanks

Answer 1

The problem I'm running into is the Linearlayout is bigger then the resolution of the screen and so it needs to scroll. So the scrolling doesn't work on the Listviews.

You need to rethink the way you are building your UI, as you cannot have ListViews inside of a ScrollView.

One possibility is to put everything in the ListView, marking some rows as being non-clickable, so ListView handles your scrolling. You can use my MergeAdapter for cases like this.