Android - Scroll/Move the ListView itself

Question

I have seen some modern Android and iOS applications where there will be an Image at the top of the page that covers the entire width of the screen. Beneath it, there will be a

Answer 1

This is a bit of visual trickery, where it seems as the image and list are one but they are really not.

basically you have a listview with a headerview the same size as the image and below the listview you have your image so as you scroll it appears the listview is scrolling over the image.

The layout would look something like this

The create another layout for the header that is empty with the size of the imageview

You can also Translate the image in the Y direction when the list scrolls but then you have to hold onto the view globally in your class so you can translate using v.setTranslateY()