Not able to add empty view below Recyclerview

Question

I was trying my hand with recyclerview and floating action button for an app. The problem I encountered is that the floating action button hinders with the buttons in recyclervi

Answer 1

Here's an example (in this case a listView, but could be anything) underneath a recycler view that takes up the rest of the parent's height. Note layout_alignParentBottom and layout_above attributes.