android listview item height

  android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" 

seemed no effect.

  android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight" 

changed the height for me

The trick for me was not setting the height -- but instead setting the minHeight. This must be applied to the root view of whatever layout your custom adapter is using to render each row.

You need to use padding on the list item layout so space is added on the edges of the item (just increasing the font size won't do that).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView android:id="@+id/text1"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="8dp" />

I did something like that :

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

    View view = super.getView(position, convertView, parent);

    TextView textView = (TextView) view.findViewById(android.R.id.text1);
    textView.setHeight(30);
    textView.setMinimumHeight(30);

    /*YOUR CHOICE OF COLOR*/
    textView.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);

    return view;
}

You must put the both fields textView.setHeight(30); textView.setMinimumHeight(30); or it won't change anything. For me it worked & i had the same problem.

The height of list view items are adjusted based on its contents. In first image, no content. so height is very minimum. In second image, height is increased based on the size of the text. Because, you specified android:layout_height="wrap_content".