title: Hide row from ListView without taking up space
body: <p>I have a ListView with an associated ArrayAdapter that displays its contents in several activities. Unfortunately it got necessary now, that my ListView in one of the settings does not display all its elements, but just the ones where "property" is not set to true. I would like to avoid to use two ArrayAdapters with different content, since then I somehow need to keep them in sync. I tried it like this (this method now just assumes that getView is called in the setting where we want to hide certain elements):</p>
  
  <pre><code>public View getView(int position, View convertView, Context context) {
  ....
  
      if(!arrayitems[position].isProperty()) { //arrayitems is the underlying array
          convertView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE); 
      } 
      else {
          convertView.setVisibility(View.GONE); 
      }
      return convertView;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This works, however I get a white row if the element has isProperty == true. I would like to make the row invisible in the sense, that it does not take up any space anymore. Is that possible?</p>
  
  <p>The used xml file for convertView looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="match_parent" 
      android:paddingTop="5dp"
      android:paddingBottom="5dp"
      android:orientation="vertical"&gt;
      &lt;LinearLayout
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:orientation="horizontal" &gt;
  
          &lt;TextView
              android:id="@+id/text_item_time"
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:layout_marginRight="4dp"
              android:maxLines="1"
              android:ellipsize="none"
              android:textSize="12sp"
              android:textStyle="bold" /&gt;
  
          &lt;TextView
              android:id="@+id/text_item_status"
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:textSize="12sp"
              android:textStyle="bold" /&gt;
  
      &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  
       &lt;TextView android:id="@+id/text_item_text"
           android:layout_width="match_parent"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:textSize="12sp"
           android:maxLines="3"
           android:ellipsize="none" /&gt;
  
       &lt;LinearLayout
           android:layout_width="match_parent"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:layout_marginTop="2dp"
           android:orientation="horizontal" &gt;
  
           &lt;TextView
               android:id="@+id/text_item_rating"
               android:layout_width="wrap_content"
               android:layout_height="wrap_content"
               android:layout_marginRight="4dp"
               android:textSize="10sp" /&gt;
  
           &lt;TextView
               android:id="@+id/text_item_voted"
               android:layout_width="wrap_content"
               android:layout_height="wrap_content"
               android:textSize="10sp" /&gt;
  
       &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  
  &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried to replay all android:layout_height="wrap_content" with "fill_parent" but it did not change anything...</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>