Question

Following is my XML of my view. (I only added the structure). The problem is when I have few elements in the list view (dynamically generated), the output will show everything up to last buttons. But once the view grow passing the screen size elements after the listview do not show. But all the elements in the list view appear. How to fix it from changing this XML.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TableLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <TableRow >
    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
    </TableRow>
</TableLayout>
<ListView 
    android:id="@android:id/list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
</ListView>
<TableLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <TableRow >
    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
    <TextView 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
    </TableRow>
</TableLayout>
<Button 
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:layout_width="fill_parent" />
<Button 
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:layout_width="fill_parent"/>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

ListView are hungry for height. The worst case of presenting ListView is to give it height of wrap_content.

As your Items in ListView grow bigger, ListView increases its height to wrap its content, so as a result it pushes other Views out of the screen.

I’ll suggest you to give it height of fill_parent and play around with layout_weight params.

For further reference, I’ll recommend you to read this article about using RelativeLayout to adjust ListView with other View and ViewGroup.