android - ListPopupWindow not obeying WRAP_CONTENT width spec

Question

I'm trying to use ListPopupWindow to show a list of strings via an ArrayAdapter (eventually this will be a more complex custom adapter). Code is below. As shown in the screenshot, the resulting ListPopupWindow seems to act as if the content width is zero. It shows the proper number of items, the items are still clickable, and clicking successfully produce a Toast, so at least that much is working properly.

An interesting note: I could supply a width in pixels to popup.setWidth(...) instead of ListPopupWindow.WRAP_CONTENT and it will show some of the content, but this seems very inflexible.

How do I make the ListPopupWindow wrap its content?

Test activity:

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    private static final String[] STRINGS = {"Option1","Option2","Option3","Option4"};
    private View anchorView;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        getActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        anchorView = findViewById(android.R.id.home);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
            case android.R.id.home:
                showPopup();
                return true;
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

    private void showPopup() {
        ListPopupWindow popup = new ListPopupWindow(this);
        popup.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, STRINGS));
        popup.setAnchorView(anchorView);
        popup.setWidth(ListPopupWindow.WRAP_CONTENT);
        popup.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Clicked item " + position, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });
        popup.show();
    }
}

screenshot:

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14200724/listpopupwindow-not-obeying-wrap-content-width-spec

Answer 1

You could measure the width of the adapter content:

private int measureContentWidth(ListAdapter listAdapter) {
    ViewGroup mMeasureParent = null;
    int maxWidth = 0;
    View itemView = null;
    int itemType = 0;

    final ListAdapter adapter = listAdapter;
    final int widthMeasureSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED);
    final int heightMeasureSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(0, MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED);
    final int count = adapter.getCount();
    for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
        final int positionType = adapter.getItemViewType(i);
        if (positionType != itemType) {
            itemType = positionType;
            itemView = null;
        }

        if (mMeasureParent == null) {
            mMeasureParent = new FrameLayout(mContext);
        }

        itemView = adapter.getView(i, itemView, mMeasureParent);
        itemView.measure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);

        final int itemWidth = itemView.getMeasuredWidth();

        if (itemWidth > maxWidth) {
            maxWidth = itemWidth;
        }
    }

    return maxWidth;
}

and in your showPopup() function:

 ArrayAdapter arrayAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, STRINGS);
    popup.setAdapter(arrayAdapter);
    popup.setAnchorView(anchorView);
    popup.setContentWidth(measureContentWidth(arrayAdapter));