How can I check if a Footer has been added to a listview?

Question

I have a ListView to which i have added a footer. What call can I make on the list view to determine if a given footer is currently added to the listview?

  listView.findViewById(errorFooterid) ?

there does not seem to be a method

 view.containsView(viewReference)

Checking if an existing view is contained by another seems like a basic operation, but I don't know if there is a reliable way to check this in android.

Why does the SDK not support a clear and simple way to check for this? Even findByView(R.id.viewId) and null check is not very elegant way to do boolean check.

Answer 1

If you had only one footer and want to know it's added or not, you would try to use

public int getFooterViewsCount ()
Since: API Level 1

Returns the number of footer views in the list. Footer views are special views at the bottom of the list that should not be recycled during a layout.
Returns

    The number of footer views, 0 in the default implementation. 

So if it return 0, your listview doesn't have footer

yourListView.getFooterViewsCount();

Answer 2

You can find out the number of footer views by using the following code

listView.getFooterViewsCount();

If it returns 0, There is no footer views present.