How to create bottom menu like gmail android

Question

I am not quite sure what kind of layout Gmail is using in Android. I suppose they use a floating ViewGroup.

But for the menu on the top and bottom I rea

Answer 1

You can create a menu which will sit on the bottom of a listview using the tag like so

mymenu will contain a linearlayout with something like a tablelayout with a few rows (which can be textviews, imageviews, etc.) The table will sit at the bottom of your screen and the listview will be in a frame which starts at the top of the screen and ends at the top of the menu (no overlap)

You could also do the same for the top of the screen by simply having the listview say layout_below="@+id/header" instead of layout_above"@+id/footer" (or do both!)