Can onMeasure be skipped when adding a View to a ViewGroup?

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I have a RelativeLayout where I am adding views dynamically as the user scrolls vertically or horizontally. I have rolled my own ViewRecycler since there is potentially thousands of views that could compose the whole of what can be scrolled, but I only show 30 or so at any time. Think a zoomed in view of a calendar.

I am running into performance problems when I add the views that are about to be seen, onMeasure is called on the RelativeLayout cascading down to onMeasure getting called on all of it's child views. I already have the calculated size of how big the RelativeLayout will ever be and have set that on it's LayoutParameters, so measuring the ViewGroup isn't necessary, nor is re-measuring the Views that have already been added with their final size and the newly added view has no bearing on those view.

The simple example to demonstrate the problem is adding/removing a View to a RelativeLayout and watching the onMeasure get called despite the fact that it doesn't affect the RelativeLayout's size or the position of other Views.

main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/shell"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
</LinearLayout>

MyActivity.java

public class MyActivity extends Activity
{

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        ViewGroup shell = (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.shell);

        final RelativeLayout container = new RelativeLayout(this) {
            @Override
            protected void onMeasu