How to show header of ListView when its empty

Question

I am developing the following screen

The fourboxes next to each other

Answer 1

Don't use top layouts of button as header for list view.

So to adjust UI without using list header use weights.

Give parent Linear layout weight sum as 4 and 1, 1 to top Layouts and 2 for list view.

Answer 2

So this is how I solved it. I had a custom adapter which was connected to the listview. When it found that it had zero items to display. It would add a fake empty view as an item to the list.

Answer 3

maybe you will like this Android addHeaderView disappears when no items in ListView

override/subclass your adapter to return false from isEmpty()

Answer 4

I found a simple solution for this problem. If there's no elements for list and you are not adding the adapter, just add this:

mListView.setAdapter(null);

and the header will appear. It's easier than adding empty / fake item to the list.