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

Simply Provide "layout_weight = 1" of ListView.

Example :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:orientation="vertical"
              android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="match_parent">
    <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:layout_weight="1"
        android:dividerHeight="1px" />
    <Button
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="bottom"
        android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
        android:background="#ff8f40"
        android:padding="20dp"
        android:text="Click"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
        android:textSize="22sp"
        />
</LinearLayout>

Answer 2

I do it like this fixed button at the buttom of the screen

   <RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/relativeLayout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/listView"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_above="@+id/btn_New" >
    </ListView>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btn_New"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
        android:text="@string/New"
        android:width="170dp"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" />
</RelativeLayout>

if ur using linearLayout then assign android:layout_weight="1" to the listview and dont assign weight for button it works

Answer 3

You could do something like this:

final Button btnAddMore = new Button(this);
btnAddMore.setText(R.string.art_btn_moreIssues);
exArticlesList = (ExpandableListView) this.findViewById(R.id.art_list_exlist);
exArticlesList.addFooterView(btnAddMore);