Adding bottom margin to ListView last element

Question

I need to add to add ListView with complicated items background: different for even/odd and rounded corners at the top and bottom. It looks like this:

Answer 1

I guess you want to add margin only to last item:

So you can do in this manner, in your getview method the index of the list item and check if its the last item, then progrmatically add margin to the view.

Answer 2

add an empty footer in your list like this:

TextView empty = new TextView(this);
empty.setHeight(150);
listview.addFooterView(empty);

Answer 3

you can also do it from code if you want, for example here I react to to EditText different situations:

   if(s.toString().length()>0)
   {
      contacts_lv.setClipToPadding(false);
      contacts_lv.setPadding(0,0,0,270*screenDensity);
   }
   else
   {
      contacts_lv.setClipToPadding(true);
      contacts_lv.setPadding(0,0,0,0);
   }

Answer 4

Add these two lines in your listView XML code:

android:transcriptMode="alwaysScroll"  
android:stackFromBottom="true"

Answer 5

Clocksmith's answer is the best and pretty clever. You can also create an empty footer view.

Answer 6

In your ListView, set a paddingBottom and clipToPadding="false".

  <ListView
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="match_parent"
      android:paddingBottom="8dp"
      android:clipToPadding="false"
      android:scrollbarStyle="outsideOverlay"/>

• This also works for RecyclerView.

• Only use android:scrollbarStyle="outsideOverlay" if you want the scroll bar to not overflow into the padded area.