Question

I am having a problem getting the ListView to display properly. It currently looks like this with the following xml code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:orientation="vertical"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:background="@drawable/favs_main">
    <Button
        android:text="Return to Home"
        android:id="@+id/return_button"
        android:layout_width="150dp" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:textSize="15sp"/>
    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/favsListView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="180dp"
        android:layout_above="@id/return_button"/>
</RelativeLayout>

If you notice the list is down on the screen. I want it to be just below the favorites text instead of just above the return to home button. The catch however is that I always want the button to show and the list view to just occupy the space between the favorites text and the button. The text is from the background image so I can’t just align below that. So even with 100 items I would still like to show the button.

Thanks for the help

Answer 1

Couldn’t you just align the ListView to the Parents’ Top and set a margin for the ListView so that it is below the Text of the Background?
Also you could change the background to provide the Text in an ImageView and align the ListView to be below the ImageView.