AdWhirl eats up all space of listview

Question

I've an Activity with a vertical linearlayout containing images, buttons, listview and adwhirllayout. All have for their height wrap_content and the listview has weight="1" to force it to use all remaining space. This works fine as long as the adwhirl doesn't show an ad. Once it does, the linearlayout redraws and the listview's height becomes 0! Also when the listview is showing items. These disappear. The adwhirl is as big as the remainingSomeone an idea what's wrong?

Answer 1

This is one of the listviews from my app. It also has admob at the bottom of the screen. Give this a go.

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:orientation="vertical"  >
    <ListView 
        android:id="@android:id/list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"   >
    </ListView>
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/android:empty"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:text="@string/no_contacts"
        android:padding="10dp"
        android:textSize="16sp"
        android:textStyle="bold"    >
    </TextView>
</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/now_playing_loading"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="bottom"
    android:gravity="center"    >
    <com.admob.android.ads.AdView  
        android:id="@+id/ad" 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="48dp"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        app:backgroundColor="#000000"
        app:primaryTextColor="#FFFFFF"
        app:secondaryTextColor="#CCCCCC"    >
    </com.admob.android.ads.AdView>
</LinearLayout>