How to set background of listview?

Question

I have a ListView in one of my activity. I have one customview which is created extending ImageView.I want to add this customview as background of

Answer 1

You cannot use your custom View as Background of ListView. However a workaround could be:

• Use RelativeLayout as parent layout container.
• Add a LinearLayout with property of fill_parent for both width and height
• Give any id as list_background to the LinearLayout.
• Then add the ListView to the parent RelativeLayout.
• Add property android:layout_centerInParent="true" to both of the ListView and LinearLayout
• Remove background of the ListView and your CustomRow if you have any.
• Now get the LinearLayout in Java and add the View to that LinearLayout