ListView created programmatically - emptyView doesn't show

Question

I've created custom ListView programmatically, and set view to show when ListAdapter is empty but nothing shows on the screen in that case, what can be wrong?

    public PlayerList(Context context, Activity activity) {
    super(context);
    mParent = activity;
    setOnItemClickListener(
        new OnItemClickListener() {    
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {   ...   } };

    List<PlayerInfo> players;
    players = getPlayerList(); // here size of players == 0
    setAdapter(new PlayersAdapter(this.getContext(), R.id.player_name, players));

    LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater)mParent.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    emptyView = vi.inflate(R.layout.empty_view, null); // emptyView is View, and member of PlayerList

    this.setEmptyView(emptyView);
}

Answer 1

hi.. I don't know if i understand your question.. But if your list is empty and you setted layout parameters width and height to wrap_content maybe you can just see your list cause it has 0 size. Could you show us your layout?

Answer 2

here is emptyView layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
android:orientation="vertical" 
android:id="@+id/empty_list">
<TextView android:id="@+id/TextView01" 
android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
android:text="No players detected..." 
android:textSize="30px" 
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"></TextView>
<TextView 
android:id="@+id/TextView02" 
android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
android:layout_height="wrap_content"></TextView>
<Button android:id="@+id/Button01" 
android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" 
android:text="Refresh"></Button>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 3

here is full source:

project source

Answer 4

you could try another way to inflate your view:

View.inflate(your_context, R.layout.empty_view, null);

Answer 5

I've changed the way of creating my custom ListView from creating it programmatically to inflating it from xml layout, and in that xml I've described my custom listview and LinearLayout with id android:empty.

Surprisingly if in my ListView's constructor I call setEmptyView(some_view), then in case of empty Adapter View with id = android:empty is shown, in other case list is shown correctly. If I don't call setEmptyView(some_view) in constructor, then in case of empty Adapter nohting is shown, probably emptyView is null.

Now it works.