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

You can put the listView and the empty layout together in a FrameLayout, and put the empty layout margin in the size of the header, then, you can change the visibility of the empty view when an item is added to listview.

layout will be as similar to this:

    

    

       //insert your layout here