Android - Header and Footer

You can of course put arbitrary Views elements around your ListView. For example you can define a layout with twoTextViews and a ListView between them. In this case the two TextViews will always be visible above the List (header) and the other will be visible below the ListView. If you want to display a list header or list footer only at the see the beginning or end of the list you can use the setHeaderView() method or setFooterView() method onListView.

package de.vogella.android.listactivity;

import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;

public class MyList extends ListActivity {

  

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
    super.onCreate(icicle);
    // Create an array of Strings, that will be put to our ListActivity
    String[] names = new String[] { "Linux", "Windows7", "Eclipse", "Suse",
        "Ubuntu", "Solaris", "Android", "iPhone", "Linux", "Windows7",
        "Eclipse", "Suse", "Ubuntu", "Solaris", "Android", "iPhone" };
    View header = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.header, null);
    View footer = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.footer, null);
    ListView listView = getListView();
    listView.addHeaderView(header);
    listView.addFooterView(footer);
    setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
        android.R.layout.simple_list_item_single_choice,
        android.R.id.text1, names));

  }
}