Question

I have a view with TabHost and TabWidget which host on every tab a ListView. I need to have an empty view for every ListView. That is on every tab, if corresponding ListView has no items, I need to display another view.

If I have a single tab with a view marked by @android:id/empty id in the layout xml-file, it works perfectly well. But how can the same thing be accomplished for each tab?

I prefer a simple solution with minimum coding. I’d wish Android support something like @android:id/empty1 and @android:id/empty2, but it doesn’t.

UPDATE: It’s solved. Custom IDs work ok for empty views as well. It was my misunderstanding that only preconfigured Android views with specific ID can serve as empty view.

Answer 1

After short investigation I found out, that custom IDs work ok for empty views as well. It was my misunderstanding that only preconfigured Android views with specific ID can serve as empty view.