android listview empty message with header

Question

Is there any way to display the empty message and the listview header at the same time? It seems that when i set the empty view and the list is empty, the header will not be displayed.

thx Ben

Answer 1

Ugh, yeah, this is the wrong behavior in my opinion. But for better or worse, that's the way Android works.

I would advise creating a custom view and putting it in the table's footer instead. Keep a reference to the view in your activity, and set it's visibility to View.VISIBLE or View.GONE depending on what the list adapter returns in is isEmpty().