Android RelativeLayout and height of wrap_content?

I am trying to make a selection ListActivity, similar to the one used to add shortcuts to the launcher screens. I have rolled my own header and footers, which I would like to be "sticky" at the top and bottom of the view when on screen. In order to do this, I am using a RelativeLayout with the header set to dock to top, footer set to dock to bottom, and开发者_如何学C the list set to go below the header and above the footer. In terms of the overall layout of the activity, this is rendering as I would expect. The header is sticky to the top, the footer is sticky to the bottom, and the list scrolls in between them.

One odd thing though happened when I switched to the RelativeLayout as my root. Please see the following screenshot:

I want my Activity's height to be wrap_content, so that the form is only as high as the content displayed in it, but once i switched to RelativeLayout, it seems to render the Activity effectively as fill_parent, taking up the whole screen, even though the content doesn't warrant it. Notice that there are not enough list items to fill the screen, which with the fill_parent style, is leaving a bunch of whitespace between the end of the list, and the footer. I was setting my height's via styles - which worked fine with LinearLayout, but seems to be ignored now. So I tried hard-coding the height directly on the RelativeLayout, but it still doesn't work and still renders as fill_parent.

Here is my layout code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
                    style="@style/GroupsList"  
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <FrameLayout android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
                     android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
                     android:id="@+id/hdrGroups" 
                     android:layout_alignParentTop="true">
            <include layout="@layout/title" 
                     android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
                     android:layout_height="wrap_content">
            </include>
        </FrameLayout>

        <FrameLayout style="@style/MyFooter" 
                     android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
                     android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
                     android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" 
                     android:id="@+id/ftrGroups">
            <ImageView style="@style/CloseButton" 
                       android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
                       android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
                       android:src="@drawable/add" 
                       android:id="@+id/imgGroupsAdd" 
                       android:clickable="true">
            </ImageView>
        </FrameLayout>

        <ListView android:divider="#9f9f9f" 
                  android:id="@+id/android:list" 
                  android:choiceMode="singleChoice" 
                  android:dividerHeight="1dp" 
                  android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
                  android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
                  android:layout_below="@id/hdrGroups" 
                  android:layout_above="@id/ftrGroups">
        </ListView>

        <TextView android:text="@string/browser_no_groups" 
                  style="@style/ListedItemB" 
                  android:id="@+id/android:empty" 
                  android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
                  android:layout_above="@id/ftrGroups" 
                  android:layout_below="@id/hdrGroups" 
                  android:layout_width="fill_parent">
        </TextView>
    </RelativeLayout>

All layout is done via XML, ... I am not doing any layout in code. How can I get the sticky header and footer while also having the activity as a whole behave in a wrap_content mode for its height? Is there some other way I should be going about this instead of a RelativeLayout?

According to the developer documentation your desired behaviour is not possible for Relative layout ;

"Note that you cannot have a circular dependency between the size of the RelativeLayout and the position of its children. For example, you cannot have a RelativeLayout whose height is set to WRAP_CONTENT and a child set to ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM."

RelativeLayout

To solve your problem you could maybe try to use a linear layout, set to wrap_content and set max height via code to screen height.

You can get the screen height as described here : get screen height

I just change my RelativeLayout in FrameLayout and all starts to work