Hiding the Header view in ListView

Question

I\'m trying to add a header view to my list, and hide it all the time unless we scroll to it (like the pull-to-refresh mechanism). The problem is: if the list is not tall enough

Answer 1

Here's a blog post describing a simple way of hiding and showing the header view.

The idea is to to put the content you wish to hide in a LinearLayout that wraps it, and hiding the content only. That way, the wrapping LinearLayout will collapse when its content is hidden, resulting in a headerView that is technically still present, but 0dip high.

Note: If you would try to hide the content without the enclosing layout, you would be left with unwanted space in the header view.

An example layout with a spinner representing the content:

Then you can hide the spinner (content) as follows:

spinnerLayout.findViewById(R.id.spinner).setVisibility(View.GONE);