How to set a maximum height with wrap content in android?

you can add this to any view (override onMeasure in a class inherited from a view)

@Overrideprotected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {    if (maxHeight > 0){        int hSize = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);        int hMode = MeasureSpec.getMode(heightMeasureSpec);        switch (hMode){            case MeasureSpec.AT_MOST:                heightMeasureSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(Math.min(hSize, maxHeight), MeasureSpec.AT_MOST);                break;            case MeasureSpec.UNSPECIFIED:                heightMeasureSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(maxHeight, MeasureSpec.AT_MOST);                break;            case MeasureSpec.EXACTLY:                heightMeasureSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec(Math.min(hSize, maxHeight), MeasureSpec.EXACTLY);                break;        }    }    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);}

I've extended ScrollView and added code to implement this feature:

https://gist.github.com/JMPergar/439aaa3249fa184c7c0c

I hope that be useful.

You can do it programmatically.

 private static class OnViewGlobalLayoutListener implements ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener {    private final static int maxHeight = 130;    private View view;    public OnViewGlobalLayoutListener(View view) {        this.view = view;    }    @Override    public void onGlobalLayout() {        if (view.getHeight() > maxHeight)            view.getLayoutParams().height = maxHeight;    }}

And add listener to the view:

view.getViewTreeObserver()                  .addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnViewGlobalLayoutListener(view));

Listener will call method onGlobalLayout(), when view height will be changed.