Display “No Item” message in ListView

Question

I\'ve created some composie UIs in my android apps and there are some ListView controls -among other controls- inside a view. Because of this, I have used \"Activity\" as my

Answer 1

The easiest way to achieve this was using a ListFragment instead of a ListActivity. ListFragment has the following convenience method:

setEmptyText("My no items message...");

Besides, using a ListFragment class has other advantages. For example, the possibility to combine it with the new AppCompat library (which you cannot do with ListActivity because you have to extend from ActionBarActivity).