Thanks, Roman.  I've found similar posts, but wasn't sure why.  So,
does this mean that I have to build a custom layout to effectively
mimic an expanded ListView?  Or, what other kinda of widget can I
utilize?

Thanks,
Dustin

On Dec 4, 11:47 am, Romain Guy <romain...@android.com> wrote:
> If you want a ListView to expand completely and you want it to not
> have scrollbars, then you dont' want a ListView. ListView and
> ScrollView cannot be used embedded within one another since they
> compete for scrolling.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Dustin <dustin.bre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a layout that needs to scroll off the screen because it
> > contains a lot of fields.  The top 1/2 of the screen will contain
> > fixed-width and fixed-height TextViews.  However, the bottom 1/2 will
> > contain two dynamically-sized widgets; a TextView and a ListView. The
> > bottom TextView may be 1 line of text, or it may contain 15 lines of
> > text.
>
> > However, the bottom ListView may end up with no space left over, those
> > making it too tiny to even be useful.  What I would really like to do
> > is have the entire ListView be expanded and the entire layout scroll
> > up or down.
>
> > I can't seem to accomplish this, even wrapping the entire layout in a
> > ScrollView.  Seems the ScrollView doesn't ever add scrollbars and the
> > ListView is limited to just whatever is left over in the layout after
> > the top elements have been drawn.
>
> > Is there a way to request that the ListView be expanded completely and
> > NEVER have any scrollbars at all, so that the enclosing ScrollView
> > will handle the scrolling?
>
> > Here's a mock-up of my current layout:
>
> > <ScrollView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
> > android:layout_height="fill_parent"
> >        android:background="#FFFFFFFF" android:padding="5dp"
> >        android:scrollbars="vertical" android:fillViewport="true"
> > android:isScrollContainer="true"
> > <RelativeView...(also tried LinearLayouts, too..) layout_height="both
> > fill and wrap">
> > ...
> > several text views, layout_height="wrap_content"
> > ...
>
> > <TextView android:id="@+id/varying_size_tv"
> > android:layout_height="wrap_content".../>
>
> > <!-- the following ListView always is displayed in the remaining space
> > UNLESS I specify layout_height="1200dp", then it is expanded and the
> > ScrollView seems to work -->
> > <ListView android:id="@android:id/list"
> > android:layout_width="fill_parent"
> >        android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:minHeight="500dp"
> >         android:layout_below="@id/line"
> > />
>
> > </RelativeView>
> > </ScrollView>
>
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