List activity with header, footer and empty all visible

Question

I would like to have the listview in a ListActivity be displayed with the header and footer visible all the time even if the list data is empty.

An empty list causes

Answer 1

I found that header/footer will always be visible if you don't call ListView.setEmptyView.

Instead, manually show/hide your empty view:

emptyView.setVisibility(list.size() == 0 ? View.VISIBLE : View.GONE);