Best place to addHeaderView in ListFragment

Question

I\'m having some trouble setting up my custom header in my list.

I\'m creating a ListFragment with a custom adapter. I have the list working fine, but I\'m trying t

Answer 1

This is my solution for handling footer/header in list view. I use it in retained fragment. Adapter is initialized in renderView() method. This method can be called how many times you need (e.g. for refresh data in view) and footer/header works fine. I tested this code on Android 2,3,4.

@Override
public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);

    ...

    renderView();
}


@Override
public void onDestroyView()
{
    super.onDestroyView();

    // free adapter
    setListAdapter(null);
}


private void renderView()
{
    // reference
    ListView listView = getListView();

    // adapter
    if(getListAdapter()==null)
    {
        // init adapter
        mAdapter = new MyAdapter(...);
    }
    else
    {
        // refill adapter
        // this method assign array list object to adapter and call notifyDataSetChanged()
        mAdapter.refill(...);
    }

    // add footer
    setListAdapter(null);
    if(listView.getFooterViewsCount()==0)
    {
        mFooterView = getActivity().getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.my_footer, null);
        listView.addFooterView(mFooterView);
    }

    // set adapter
    setListAdapter(mAdapter);
}