Creating List in Android

1) Create layout with List view and Textview for empty text. set id to @android:id/list & @android:id/empty

eg: activity_list_test.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

   xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

   android:layout_width="match_parent"

   android:layout_height="match_parent"

   android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"

   android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"

   android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"

   android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"

   tools:context=".ListTestActivity" >

   

   <ListView

       android:headerDividersEnabled="true"        

       android:id="@android:id/list"

       android:layout_width="fill_parent"

       android:layout_height="fill_parent"

       />

   <TextView

       android:id="@android:id/empty"

       android:layout_width="fill_parent"

       android:layout_height="fill_parent"

       android:gravity="center"

       android:text="@string/listempty" />

</RelativeLayout>

2) Create Activity extending ListActivity

package com.test.list;

import com.test.R;

import com.test.R.id;

import com.test.R.layout;

import com.test.R.menu;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.app.ListActivity;

import android.util.Log;

import android.view.LayoutInflater;

import android.view.Menu;

import android.view.MenuItem;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;

import android.widget.ListView;

import android.widget.RelativeLayout;

import android.widget.TextView;

import android.content.Context;

public class ListTestActivity extends ListActivity {

public String todos[] = new String[]{"todo1", "todo2", "todo3", "todo4", "todo5","todo6", "todo7", "todo8", "todo9", "todo10"};

ArrayAdapter<String> adapter;

ListView lv;

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

//set listview layout

setContentView(R.layout.activity_list_test);

lv = getListView();

//Adding header for the list

RelativeLayout layout = (RelativeLayout) getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.list_item, null);

TextView v  = (TextView) layout.findViewById(R.id.listitem);

v.setText("Name");

lv.addHeaderView(layout);

//setting adapter for the list

adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.list_item, R.id.listitem, todos);

setListAdapter(adapter);

}

//Action called when list item is selected

@Override

protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {

Log.d("onListItemClick", "position "+ position +" id "+ id);

super.onListItemClick(l, v, position, id);

}

@Override

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.

getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.list_test, menu);

return true;

}

@Override

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);

}

}