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ListView in Fragment not covering full Parent

I have a ListView in a Fragment which isn't covering the whole Parent when the List isn't fully populated.
The Problem is the scrolling behaviour of the ListView, I can only browse in the small piece of window the ListView is initially loaded in.
(4 Entries or more do occupy the entire Parent, with less entries the problem happens)
Fragment:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/list"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:divider="#null"
/> </LinearLayout>
Main XML:
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
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:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/frame_container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
app:layout_behavior="#string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"
/>
<android.support.design.widget.BottomNavigationView
android:id="#+id/navigation"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:background="?android:attr/windowBackground"
app:itemBackground="#color/bgBottomNavigation"
app:itemIconTint="#android:color/white"
app:itemTextColor="#android:color/white"
app:menu="#menu/navigation" />
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
The ListView gets populated via Volley + JSON with an Adapter for the ListView. Comment if you need the Code.
When I'm trying to put the ListViews height on "match_parent" the whole screen is occupied by the ListView, but it isn't scrollable anymore.
What can I do?
EDIT:
Coordinator Layout - This is the Code of the Frame Coordinator with the Bottom Navigation in it:
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout 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:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/frame_container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
/>
<android.support.design.widget.BottomNavigationView
android:id="#+id/navigation"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:background="?android:attr/windowBackground"
app:itemBackground="#color/bgBottomNavigation"
app:itemIconTint="#android:color/white"
app:itemTextColor="#android:color/white"
app:menu="#menu/navigation" />
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

You could set a minimum height attribute to your listView and adjust to what suits you.
Eg. to set it to 20dp, add android:minHeight="20dp" to your listView attributes.
Best solution would be to wrap all the contents of the CoordinatorLayout inside a layout you can control yourself, like a ConstraintLayout. In that case you would align the FrameLayout (and the fragments it handles) between your other components and everything would be scrollable and clickable. A mock of this solution would be:
<CoordinatorLayout>
<ConstraintLayout height="match_parent">
<BottomNavigation bottomToBottomOf="parent" />
<FrameLayout height="0dp"
topToTopOf="parent"
bottomToTopOf="bottomNavigation" />
</ConstraintLayout>
</CoordinatorLayout>

set background png on Linearlayout without affecting layout size

Background image doesn't fill Linearlayout and changes that size
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#mipmap/dashboard_background"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="10dp">
desirable look is this
How can I reach that?

You should use a frame layout with an imageview and a linearlayout inside
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/FrameLayout1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:adjustViewBounds="true"
android:scaleType="centerCrop"
android:src="#drawable/background"/>
<LinearLayout
---Your Layout---
</LinearLayout>

Background always stretches to its View size. So you can't really control how it will look like. Instead, put an ImageView as a bottom most (meaning that it will lay under everything else) element in your layout, and use your background image as a source (src) for this ImageView, and so you will be able to control the look of the background with scaleType (probable you would want to use centerCrop or fitCenter). More about scaleType here.
In the end your layout should look something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:scaleType="fitCenter"
android:src="#mipmap/dashboard_background" />
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/content_container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<!-- Put your view elements here -->
</FrameLayout>
</FrameLayout>

ScrollView not Scrolling when keyboard shown

This is resizing when the keyboard is showing instead of scrolling. Why is that?
I have adjustResize set in the Manifest but it still isnt scrolling. What else do I need to change? I have tried removing isScrollableView also.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#color/night"
android:fillViewport="true">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:isScrollContainer="true">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/iv_login_logo"
android:layout_width="#dimen/login_logo_width"
android:layout_height="#dimen/login_logo_height"
android:src="#drawable/travelbank_logo_white"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/login_logo_margin"
android:layout_marginBottom="#dimen/login_logo_margin"/>
<!--Tab Layout-->
<android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
android:id="#+id/tl_login_tabs"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/tab_layout_height"
app:tabGravity="fill"
tabMode="fixed"
app:tabTextAppearance="#style/NavigationTabTextAppeareance"
app:tabIndicatorHeight="0dp"
app:tabPadding="0dp"/>
<!--Login Page-->
<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
android:id="#+id/vp_login_view_pager"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"/>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

Turns out you cant have a View Pager inside a Scroll View. I removed the View Pager and everything works fine

Android listview to overlay another view

I have a view which contains a top view (it's a mapview but it's not implemented yet) and a listview below it.
What I'm trying to do is to make the top of listview to be overlay the bottom of the top view a little bit. Here is something similar to what I'm trying to achieve :
(without the tab headers and the image will be the mapview)
I'm not sure how I can achieve that, here is what I have so far:
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<View
android:id="#+id/map"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="250dp"
android:background="#android:color/holo_red_dark">
</View>
<com.hmm.widgets.CustomListView
android:id="#+id/runners_list"
android:background="#android:color/darker_gray"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:dividerHeight="10dp"
android:divider="#android:color/darker_gray">
</com.hmm.widgets.CustomListView>
</RelativeLayout>
I've tried negative margin which didn't work. I'm not sure how can I achieve something similar. Should I be using FrameLayout?

You can use LinearLayout in your case and design the layout like this. This is a trick of setting a negative layout_marginTop to your custom ListView
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<View
android:id="#+id/map"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="250dp"
android:background="#android:color/holo_red_dark">
</View>
<com.hmm.widgets.CustomListView
android:id="#+id/runners_list"
android:background="#android:color/darker_gray"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:dividerHeight="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="-40dp"
android:divider="#android:color/darker_gray">
</com.hmm.widgets.CustomListView>
</LinearLayout>

Complementing Reaz's answer, you can do it with RelativeLayout too without using negative margins (which are a bit controversial).
Note the last four attributes in the CustomListView: you constraint the height with alignParent*, set a dummy height which will be discarded, and offset the view from the top with a margin. The "negative offset" will be 250dp - 200dp = 50 dp.
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<View
android:id="#+id/map"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="250dp"
android:background="#android:color/holo_red_dark">
</View>
<com.hmm.widgets.CustomListView
android:id="#+id/runners_list"
android:background="#android:color/darker_gray"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:dividerHeight="10dp"
android:divider="#android:color/darker_gray"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_marginTop="200dp"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
</com.hmm.widgets.CustomListView>
</RelativeLayout>

How to set specific height at run time for Sliding layout?

I am building an app that uses this library:https://github.com/umano/AndroidSlidingUpPanel to create a panel that slides on from the bottom of the screen when a user clicks an item in a listview.
However i dont want the slide up panel to take up the entire screen. I need there to be a gap at the top, between the panel and the action bar, of exactly 80dp.
I have tried everything i can think of (putting a spacer there with a transparant background, using layoutParams (gives error), etc). But nothing seems to work.
If someone could give me some suggestions as to what i could try next, i would much appreciate it.
The xml layouts are below.
Thanks for your time.
Corey
<com.bacon.corey.audiotimeshift.SlidingUpPanelLayout xmlns:sothree="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/sliding_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="bottom"
sothree:panelHeight="68dp"
sothree:shadowHeight="4dp"
sothree:overlay="true">
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="4dip"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="4dip"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
android:id="#+id/viewPager"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0px"
android:layout_weight="1">
</android.support.v4.view.ViewPager>
</LinearLayout>
<com.bacon.corey.audiotimeshift.FloatingActionButton
android:id="#+id/fabbutton"
android:layout_width="72dp"
android:layout_height="72dp"
android:layout_gravity="bottom|right"
android:layout_marginBottom="16dp"
android:layout_marginRight="16dp"
app:colour="#color/holo_red_light"
app:drawable="#drawable/ic_content_new"
/>
</FrameLayout>
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center|top"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:id="#+id/slideUpPanel"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
>
<fragment android:name="com.bacon.corey.audiotimeshift.PlayFragment"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="#+id/fragment_play"
/>
</FrameLayout>
</com.bacon.corey.audiotimeshift.SlidingUpPanelLayout>

What about wrapping your SlidingUpPanelLayout in another layout, say FrameLayout and adding some good old paddingTop to the latter?

I have found a workaround. Draw the background of the pane transparent and put a padding top, but first the library must be modified like it's written here:
https://github.com/umano/AndroidSlidingUpPanel/issues/4
Hope this helps somebody in the future :)