How to get ad to show at bottom of screen without overlap

Question

I have an admob ad banner which I\'d like to put at the bottom of my screen, and have the rest of the content resize to fill the available space when the ad loads in. I see

Answer 1

You can do that by using RelativeLayout without doing hackish stuff:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent">
    <bla.bla.AdView
            android:id="@+id/ad"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
            android:background="#FF0000"/>
    <ListView
            android:id="@android:id/list"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:layout_above="@id/ad"/>
</RelativeLayout>

If the ad does not load for some strange reason, the ListView will take all the available space. On the other hand, if the ad does load, the ListView won't be overlapped by the ad.