Hide footer view in ListView?

Question

I have a ListView. The data behind it is fetched from the Internet, in sets of 10-30 items whenever the user scrolls all the way to the bottom. In order to indi

Answer 1

As @YoniSamlan pointed out, it can be achieved in a simple way. You have to specify

android:layout_height="wrap_content" 

in the ViewGroup that contains the "Load More" button. Doesn't have to be FrameLayout, see below for a simple -working- example that uses a LinearLayout.

Both images show a screen that is scrolled all the way to the bottom. First one has a visible footer that wraps around the "load more" button. Second images shows that the footer collapses if you set button's visibility to GONE.

You can show again the footer (inside some callback) by changing the visibility:

loadMore.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);  // set to View.GONE to hide it again

Perform listView initialization as usual

    // Find View, set empty View if needed
    mListView = (ListView) root.findViewById(R.id.reservations_search_results);
    mListView.setEmptyView(root.findViewById(R.id.search_reservations_list_empty));

    // Instantiate footerView using a LayoutInflater and add to listView
    footerView = ((LayoutInflater) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE))
            .inflate(R.layout.load_more_footer_view, null, false);
    // additionally, find the "load more button" inside the footer view
    loadMore = footerView.findViewById(R.id.load_more);
    loadMore.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            fetchData();
        }
    });

    // add footer view to the list
    mListView.addFooterView(footerView);

    // after we're done setting the footerView, we can setAdapter
    adapter = new ReservationsArrayAdapter(getActivity(), R.layout.list_item_reservations_search, reservationsList);
    mListView.setAdapter(adapter);

load_more_footer_view.xml