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Rishi
Rishi

Reputation: 3539

Set emptyView of android listActivity

i have created a My custom listActivty by extending ListActivity like this.

public class MainList extends ListActivity {

ListView listView;

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    listView = getListView();
    setContentView(R.layout.list_main);

   }

}

And declaring its xml like this

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

<ListView android:id="@id/android:list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        >
</ListView>
<TextView android:id="@id/android:empty"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
        android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
        android:background="#FFFFFF"
        android:text="My Text"
/>

</LinearLayout>

i am using CursorAdapter as listActivity adapter.Its showing perfectly with MainList is empty.

My problem is that i want to show more than a textview when MainList is empty. Basically i need custom view(imageview,button etc) to be shown when list is empty.How should i do this.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 233

Answers (3)

harish
harish

Reputation: 255

For the listview there is one default method to set empty view.

setEmptyView(view)

Try This.... In the place of view pass your custom view.

If you are not getting then tell me. I will post an example for this.

Upvotes: 1

Arnab Chakraborty
Arnab Chakraborty

Reputation: 7472

Try using the android:id/empty for your custom view. I think you can apply the id to any view, not just a TextView

Upvotes: 0

Ricky
Ricky

Reputation: 7879

You may want to count the items in your CursorAdapter. If 0 is returned, hide/show parts from your XML? That's how I done similar, but they may be better ways.

Upvotes: 0

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