How can I determine the maximum height available to a ScrollView?
I would like to implement something like a ListView and, thus, would like to know how much space is available to layout list items. Consider an app with a simple LinearLayout, where TestList is a subclassed ScrollView. TestList contains a single LinearLayout, added at runtime.
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="top" />
<com.example.testsimplelist.TestList
android:id="@+id/test_list"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="bottom" />
</LinearLayout>
With this, my question is: how much visible vertical space do I have for adding items to "test_list".
(I've already gone the ListView route, but am running into problems with excessive calls to getView, causing too much speed degregation. Since my usage case is much reduced from ListView, I figure I can implement my own for less work than hacking around ListView problems.)
Here's what I've tried:
1) using the params of ScrollView.onMeasure - useless because they are effectively infinite.
2) using the height of the layout inside the ScrollView - this is initially 0 since it has no contents. That is, its height is dependent on its contents.