Android - SwipeRefreshLayout with empty textview

Question

I\'ve implemented SwipeRefreshLayout into my app but it can only hold one direct child which should be the listview. I\'m trying to figure out how to add an emp

Answer 1

Based on some answers here and the source code of SwipeRefreshLayout, I have subclassed the view to specifically handle having a RecyclerView (or ListView) and also an "empty" view inside a container which is the child.

It expects a layout such as

The code is:

public class SwipeRefreshLayoutWithEmpty extends SwipeRefreshLayout {
    private ViewGroup container;

    public SwipeRefreshLayoutWithEmpty(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public SwipeRefreshLayoutWithEmpty(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean canChildScrollUp() {
        // The swipe refresh layout has 2 children; the circle refresh indicator
        // and the view container. The container is needed here
        ViewGroup container = getContainer();
        if (container == null) {
            return false;
        }

        // The container has 2 children; the empty view and the scrollable view.
        // Use whichever one is visible and test that it can scroll
        View view = container.getChildAt(0);
        if (view.getVisibility() != View.VISIBLE) {
            view = container.getChildAt(1);
        }

        return ViewCompat.canScrollVertically(view, -1);
    }

    private ViewGroup getContainer() {
        // Cache this view
        if (container != null) {
            return container;
        }

        // The container may not be the first view. Need to iterate to find it
        for (int i=0; i

Full gist: https://gist.github.com/grennis/16cb2b0c7f798418284dd2d754499b43