i am using a normal activity where in i have a listview. when the array is empty, how do i show an empty view? i tried using a textview with the id android:empty but it only works with listactivity. i am using a custom adapte(which extends the baseadapter class) for the listview and in the getcount() i return 0 when the array is null. But this is not working. i want to show a empty listview when i have no rows in my array. how do i achieve this?
thank you in advance.
Consider using a ListView and extending ListAdapter, which provide support for the empty case. Using these, a ListView element:
<ListView android:id="@+id/android:list" ... />
will display a matching
<TextView android:id="@+id/android:empty" ... />
for an empty list.
Another tip I spent two hours figuring out. If you set the layout_height to "0dip" for the TextView as is sometimes recommended for efficiency, it won't show up unless you set the layout_weight to some value.
You can call set list.setEmptyView(view) to display any view when the list is empty.
