How to show a button at the end of an Android ListView

Question

I want to show a button at the end of an Android list view. How can I achieve this?

I don\'t want to stick it to the activity bottom using alignparentbottom=

Answer 1

Well... details of implementations are not so easy if you want to create a smooth "add more" button at the end of the list. So here is some code :

myArrayAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<Show>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, myList) {

     @Override
     public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

        if( position >= super.getCount()  )
            return buttonMore ;

        MyNormalView view = null; 
        if (convertView == null || convertView instanceof Button )
            view = new MyNormalView(getContext());
        else
            view = (MyNormalView) convertView;

        //customize view here with data
        return view;
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
       return super.getCount()+1;
    }//met
};

Answer 2

You may want to use ListView#addFooterView() to add a View at the bottom of the ListView.

Answer 3

You could, of course, use a custom adapter and specify a footer item. But you could probably also get away with putting it at the bottom of a ScrollView and have the ListView stretch vertically to the content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/main_bg">

  <ScrollView
      android:layout_height="fill_parent"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent">

    <LinearLayout 
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            >

      <ListView android:id="@+id/android:list"
          android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:drawSelectorOnTop="false" 
          android:cacheColorHint="#ff6a00"
          android:divider="#ff8f40"
          android:dividerHeight="1px"
          />

      <RelativeLayout 
          android:layout_width="fill_parent"
          android:layout_height="50sp"
          android:background="#676767"
          android:orientation="vertical">

        <Button android:layout_width="100px"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:id="@+id/btnGetMoreResults"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10px"
            android:text="Get more" />

      </RelativeLayout>

    </LinearLayout>

  </ScrollView>

</RelativeLayout>

Answer 4

I came here looking for an answer first but found it somewhere else...

It's really easy, you just need to put weight 1 to the list inside a linear layout, the other textviews/buttons/etc don't need to have any weight value.

Here is an example: https://bitbucket.org/generalplus/android_development/src/5a892efb0551/samples/ApiDemos/res/layout/linear_layout_9.xml

Answer 5

1 If you want to add Button as the last element of the list view

You must create custom ListAdapter for your ListView which will create a view with a Button in the getView method. You should decide how to return your custom view for the last element, you can hardcode it (return element count +1 in getCount method and return custom view in getView when position > element count) or you can add element to the structure you will be taking data from (Array, Cursor etc.) and check if field of element have certain value

2 If you want to add element below list view

You should use android:layout_width attribute and make ListView and "empty" TextView (you should use it to show users that list is empty and View rendering is completed) layout_weight greater than buttons layout_weight

Check how it's done in Transdroids search Activity http://code.google.com/p/transdroid/source/browse/trunk/res/layout/search.xml

Answer 6

Use Footer view to list-view it work.

list_layout.xml :

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:drawSelectorOnTop="false"
        android:cacheColorHint="#ff6a00"
        android:divider="#ff8f40"
        android:dividerHeight="1px" />

</LinearLayout>

footerview.xml :

<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
>
    <Button
        android:layout_width="100px"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/btnGetMoreResults"
        android:layout_marginLeft="10px"
        android:text="Get more" />
</FrameLayout>

and in Activity.java

    list=(ListView)findViewById(R.id.list);

    FrameLayout footerLayout = (FrameLayout) getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.footerview,null);
    btnPostYourEnquiry = (Button) footerLayout.findViewById(R.id.btnGetMoreResults);

    list.addFooterView(footerLayout);