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Alternative text for empty lists

ListView class in Android provides setEmptyView method, which allows us to show a message to the user if the list is empty. To use it, we have to define in the layout file an element with gone visibility. That will be the parameter for setEmptyView.

This example shows how I´ve implemented the players list on Memory Battle. This is the fragment in the layout file:

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/players_list"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" /> 

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/no_players_text"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/playersList"
        android:text="@string/no_players"
        android:visibility="gone" />

And this is the code to tell the list that it has to show the TextView when it has no elements.

playersList = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.playersList);
playersList.setEmptyView(findViewById(R.id.no_players_text));

You can use any View object as parameter for setEmptyView, so you could change the text for an image, for example.

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