android - Measuring a ViewPager

Question

I have a custom ViewGroup that has a child ViewPager. The ViewPager is fed by a PagerAdapter that provides a LinearLayout to the ViewPager which has LayoutParams of WRAP_CONTENT on both height and width.

The view displays correctly but when the child.measure() method is called on the ViewPager it does not return the actual dimensions of the LinearLayout but seems to fill all the remaining space.

Any ideas why this is happening and how to amend it?

Answer 1

I wasn't very happy with the accepted answer (nor with the pre-inflate-all-views solution in the comments), so I put together a ViewPager that takes its height from the first available child. It does this by doing a second measurement pass, allowing you to steal the first child's height.

A better solution would be to make a new class inside the android.support.v4.view package that implements a better version of onMeasure (with access to package-visible methods like populate())

For the time being, though, the solution below suits me fine.

public class HeightWrappingViewPager extends ViewPager {

    public HeightWrappingViewPager(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public HeightWrappingViewPager(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);

        boolean wrapHeight = MeasureSpec.getMode(heightMeasureSpec) 
                == MeasureSpec.AT_MOST;

        if(wrapHeight) {
            /**
             * The first super.onMeasure call made the pager take up all the 
             * available height. Since we really wanted to wrap it, we need 
             * to remeasure it. Luckily, after that call the first child is 
             * now available. So, we take the height from it. 
             */

            int width = getMeasuredWidth(), height = getMeasuredHeight();

            // Use the previously measured width but simplify the calculations
            widthMeasureSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(width, MeasureSpec.EXACTLY);

            /* If the pager actually has any children, take the first child's 
             * height and call that our own */ 
            if(getChildCount() > 0) {
                View firstChild = getChildAt(0);

                /* The child was previously measured with exactly the full height.
                 * Allow it to wrap this time around. */
                firstChild.measure(widthMeasureSpec, 
                        MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(height, MeasureSpec.AT_MOST));

                height = firstChild.getMeasuredHeight();
            }

            heightMeasureSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(height, MeasureSpec.EXACTLY);

            super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
        }
    }
}