Android since Kitkat doesn't deliver updates to inner adapter views

Question

We have a ListView with BaseAdapter and each row contains horizontal ListView (just AdapterView). Before KitKat (Android 4.4) expanding some row inside ListView lead it for trigerring getView() for whole ListView and it lead to calling getView() for all the inner adapter items of this row. But starting KitKat it doesn't work like this anymore - inner adapter just doesn't receive any messages that will lead it to update its views.

Is it a part of KitKat optimizations? Should we now force Android to update inner adapter views manually?

UPDATE: The same problem (not trigerring getView() on inner adapter views) was found on Nexus 7 with Android 4.3

Answer 1

We finished finally by adding the following block inside getView() of ListView's BaseAdapter:

if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 18) {
  parent.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
      (<inner adapter>).notifyDataSetChanged();
    }
  });
}