Android: margin/padding for the ListView without having the margin applied to the header?

Question

Is it possible to have a margin/padding for the ListView without having the margin applied to the header? I want my ListView to be like the Google Now layout. I've got everything working except for this little problem.

Question: Is it possible to not have layout parameters of the ListView apply to its header?

EDIT1:More info

The purple view is the header to the listView. I have tried adding margin to the list item layout.This doesnt work either. All i need is a way to apply margin to the listview so that it doesnt apply the margin to the header in the listView.

EDIT2: My layouts header.xml

<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <View
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="@dimen/top_height"
        android:background="@color/top_item" />

    <View
        android:id="@+id/placeholder"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="@dimen/sticky_height"
        android:layout_gravity="bottom" />

</FrameLayout>

root_list.xml

<LinearLayout>
<com.test.CustomListView
    android:id="@android:id/list"
    android:layout_marginLeft="16dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="16dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" /></LinearLayout>

list_item.xml

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="@drawable/card_background"
android:orientation="vertical" >

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textview_note"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textview_note_date"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"/></LinearLayout>

I've removed uselsess layout properties here due to length of this post.

Answer 1

// Temp is the root view that was found in the xml
final View temp = createViewFromTag(root, name, attrs, false);

ViewGroup.LayoutParams params = null;

if (root != null) {
    if (DEBUG) {
        System.out.println("Creating params from root: " +
                root);
    }
    // Create layout params that match root, if supplied
    params = root.generateLayoutParams(attrs);
    if (!attachToRoot) {
        // Set the layout params for temp if we are not
        // attaching. (If we are, we use addView, below)
        temp.setLayoutParams(params);
    }

// We are supposed to attach all the views we found (int temp)
// to root. Do that now.
if (root != null && attachToRoot) {
    root.addView(temp, params);
}

// Decide whether to return the root that was passed in or the
// top view found in xml.
if (root == null || !attachToRoot) {
    result = temp;
}

...
return result;

this is the code of LayoutInflater,as you can see ,if you add a root,it's not null,generated the layoutParams from root.

and then if the thrid param is false,there is only make temp.setLayoutParams(params) which params is generated by root!! and the temp is as return....

if attachToRoot is true,root will execute root.addView(temp, params),and then the root is as return..

if you just do LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.popup_choose_type, null);,and if you had set some attribute as paddingBottom,it will surprised you that is will not work!!because of loss LayoutParams!

As for how to solve it,you can see here

Answer 2

After much digging around i found that its is not posssible to decouple the listView layout params from its headers and the header is part of listView. So in order to get the desirred margin effect, After much looking around I found out that adding margin to your root of the layout in the list view item didnt work. So I added another dummy LinearLayout inside the existing root LinearLayout(a nested LinearLayout) and added the children inside the nested layout.Now setting margin to the inner layout gives the desired effect.

Code:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginRight="16dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="16dp"
        android:background="@drawable/list_selector"
        android:orientation="vertical" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textview_note"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textview_note_date"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

Answer 3

In your header part, add the following tag:

android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"

this will solve your problem.

Answer 4

you can do it by give margin in listview's layout file then you will get it the output.