How to display a “Loading…” text while retrieving items for a ListView

Question

There are some others applications doing this, like Twitter, Facebook, or even native applications such as Android Market. When you want to display a list of items retrieved fro

Answer 1

I don't know whether it will completely fits your requirement, simple way is just set the loading text initially to android-empty-id-view like

and if no list items found then set android-empty-id-view to different message in async callback

((TextView) findViewById(android.R.id.empty)).setText("Your List is empty");

it will give enough indication to user that something is progressing..i.e list is loading