ListView inside LinearLayout will not grow to show all children

Question

I create a sliding menu that opens to the side. The menu has ScrollViewwith LinearLayoutinside it for general layout and scrolling. In addition, to display the menu items, I have a list view inside LinearLayout, which means that the view hierarchy has the form:

ScrollView
    LinearLayout
        ListView

I am trying to populate with a ListViewspecial adapter that gets its data from an array. But surprisingly, when I fill in the data, it ListViewdoes not grow to show all its children, even if it is set to wrap_content. Instead, it displays only one item, but I can scroll this item to see the rest of the items.

I assume it is already in ScrollView, but I don't need the scroll function ListView. I just want it to display all the menu items, and let it ScrollViewtake care of scrolling. Menu items will not grow more than 10, so I'm not worried about memory usage right now.

Is there a way, possibly an extension ListView, to disable scrolling and make it really wrap_content?

XML format:

<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="#2e2e2e">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:paddingBottom="20dp"
        android:gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <de.hdodenhof.circleimageview.CircleImageView
            android:id="@+id/menu_profile_picture"
            android:layout_width="100dp"
            android:layout_height="100dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
            android:src="@drawable/default_profile_picture"
            app:border_color="#FFF"
            app:border_width="2dp"/>

        <com.devspark.robototextview.widget.RobotoTextView
            android:id="@+id/menu_user_name"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
            android:text="John Doe"
            android:textColor="#FFF"
            android:textSize="22sp"
            app:typeface="roboto_thin"/>


        <com.devspark.robototextview.widget.RobotoTextView
            android:id="@+id/menu_logged_in"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="LOGGED IN"
            android:textColor="#1e4472"
            android:textSize="15sp"
            app:typeface="roboto_light"/>

        <ListView
            android:id="@+id/menu_items"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:layout_marginTop="20dp" />


        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/menu_logout_icon"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
            android:src="@drawable/ic_logout"/>

        <com.devspark.robototextview.widget.RobotoTextView
            android:id="@+id/menu_logout_text"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
            android:text="LOG OUT"
            android:textColor="#e20202"
            android:textSize="15sp"
            app:typeface="roboto_light"/>
    </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

Answer 1

One golden rule is not to place a scrollable view in another.

ListView, - TableLayout ListView TableRows.