Get height and width of a layout programmatically

The view itself, has it's own life cycle which is basically as follows:

• Attached

• Measured

• Layout

• Draw

So, depending on when are you trying to get the width/height you might not see what you expect to see, for example, if you are doing it during onCreate, the view might not even been measured by that time, on the other hand if you do so during onClick method of a button, chances are that by far that view has been attached, measured, layout, and drawn, so, you will see the expected value, you should implement a ViewTreeObserver to make sure you are getting the values at the proper moment.

LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.YOUR VIEW ID);
ViewTreeObserver vto = layout.getViewTreeObserver(); 
vto.addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() { 
    @Override 
    public void onGlobalLayout() { 
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
                this.layout.getViewTreeObserver().removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(this);
            } else {
                this.layout.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this);
            } 
        int width  = layout.getMeasuredWidth();
        int height = layout.getMeasuredHeight(); 

    } 
});

As CapDroid say, you are trying to get the size before the view drawn, another possible solution could be to do a Post with a runnable on the View:

mView.post(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            int width = mView.getWidth();
            int height = mView.getHeight();
        }
}