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Here's my solution. I'm fairly new to the Android platform, and I'm sure this is a bit hackish, especially in the part about calling .measure directly, and setting the LayoutParams .height property directly, but it works.

All you have to do is call Utility.setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(yourListView) and it will be resized to exactly accommodate the height of its items.

 public class Utility {   public static void setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(ListView listView) {   ListAdapter listAdapter = listView.getAdapter();   if (listAdapter == null) { // pre-condition   return;   }   int totalHeight = listView.getPaddingTop() + listView.getPaddingBottom(); for (int i = 0; i < listAdapter.getCount(); i++) {   View listItem = listAdapter.getView(i, null, listView);   if (listItem instanceof ViewGroup) {   listItem.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)); }  listItem.measure(0, 0);   totalHeight += listItem.getMeasuredHeight();   }   ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = listView.getLayoutParams();   params.height = totalHeight + (listView.getDividerHeight() * (listAdapter.getCount() - 1));   listView.setLayoutParams(params);   }  } 

Here's my solution. I'm fairly new to the Android platform, and I'm sure this is a bit hackish, especially in the part about calling .measure directly, and setting the LayoutParams.height property directly, but it works.

All you have to do is call Utility.setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(yourListView) and it will be resized to exactly accommodate the height of its items.

public class Utility { public static void setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(ListView listView) { ListAdapter listAdapter = listView.getAdapter(); if (listAdapter == null) { // pre-condition return; } int totalHeight = listView.getPaddingTop() + listView.getPaddingBottom();     for (int i = 0; i < listAdapter.getCount(); i++) { View listItem = listAdapter.getView(i, null, listView); if (listItem instanceof ViewGroup) { listItem.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)); }       listItem.measure(0, 0); totalHeight += listItem.getMeasuredHeight(); } ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = listView.getLayoutParams(); params.height = totalHeight + (listView.getDividerHeight() * (listAdapter.getCount() - 1)); listView.setLayoutParams(params); } } 

Here's my solution. I'm fairly new to the Android platform, and I'm sure this is a bit hackish, especially in the part about calling .measure directly, and setting the LayoutParams .height property directly, but it works.

All you have to do is call Utility.setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(yourListView) and it will be resized to exactly accommodate the height of its items.

 public class Utility { public static void setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(ListView listView) { ListAdapter listAdapter = listView.getAdapter();  if (listAdapter == null) {   // pre-condition return; } int totalHeight = 0; for (int i = 0; i < listAdapter.getCount(); i++) { View listItem = listAdapter.getView(i, null, listView); listItem.measure(0, 0); totalHeight += listItem.getMeasuredHeight(); } ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = listView.getLayoutParams(); params.height = totalHeight + (listView.getDividerHeight() * (listAdapter.getCount() - 1)); listView.setLayoutParams(params); } } 

Here's my solution. I'm fairly new to the Android platform, and I'm sure this is a bit hackish, especially in the part about calling .measure directly, and setting the LayoutParams .height property directly, but it works.

All you have to do is call Utility.setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(yourListView) and it will be resized to exactly accommodate the height of its items.

 public class Utility { public static void setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(ListView listView) {   ListAdapter listAdapter = listView.getAdapter(); if (listAdapter == null) { // pre-condition   return; } int totalHeight = listView.getPaddingTop() + listView.getPaddingBottom(); for (int i = 0; i < listAdapter.getCount(); i++) {   View listItem = listAdapter.getView(i, null, listView); if (listItem instanceof ViewGroup) { listItem.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));   } listItem.measure(0, 0);   totalHeight += listItem.getMeasuredHeight(); } ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = listView.getLayoutParams(); params.height = totalHeight + (listView.getDividerHeight() * (listAdapter.getCount() - 1));   listView.setLayoutParams(params); }   } 

Here's my solution. I'm fairly new to the Android platform, and I'm sure this is a bit hackish, especially in the part about calling .measure directly, and setting the LayoutParams .height property directly, but it works.

All you have to do is call Utility.setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(yourListView) and it will be resized to exactly accommodate the height of it's items.

 public class Utility { public static void setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(ListView listView) { ListAdapter listAdapter = listView.getAdapter(); if (listAdapter == null) { // pre-condition return; } int totalHeight = 0; for (int i = 0; i < listAdapter.getCount(); i++) { View listItem = listAdapter.getView(i, null, listView); listItem.measure(0, 0); totalHeight += listItem.getMeasuredHeight(); } ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = listView.getLayoutParams(); params.height = totalHeight + (listView.getDividerHeight() * (listAdapter.getCount() - 1)); listView.setLayoutParams(params); } } 

Here's my solution. I'm fairly new to the Android platform, and I'm sure this is a bit hackish, especially in the part about calling .measure directly, and setting the LayoutParams .height property directly, but it works.

All you have to do is call Utility.setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(yourListView) and it will be resized to exactly accommodate the height of its items.

 public class Utility { public static void setListViewHeightBasedOnChildren(ListView listView) { ListAdapter listAdapter = listView.getAdapter(); if (listAdapter == null) { // pre-condition return; } int totalHeight = 0; for (int i = 0; i < listAdapter.getCount(); i++) { View listItem = listAdapter.getView(i, null, listView); listItem.measure(0, 0); totalHeight += listItem.getMeasuredHeight(); } ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = listView.getLayoutParams(); params.height = totalHeight + (listView.getDividerHeight() * (listAdapter.getCount() - 1)); listView.setLayoutParams(params); } }