Question

I need to add a button at the end of my application, without the items covering the button. With my current code the button is being covered by the items in the ListView. I wanna be able to scroll through the ListView and see all the items, without the button being covered with them. I need button with id “bSave” below the Listview. My XML code:

Button

<LinearLayout android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:orientation="vertical"
    android:id="@+id/bottom_control_bar"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">

    <Button android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="Spara total tid"
        android:id="@+id/bSave" android:textStyle="bold"
        android:visibility="invisible"></Button>
</LinearLayout>

ListView

<RelativeLayout
    android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">

    <ListView android:id="@android:id/list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_above="@id/bottom_control_bar"></ListView>
    <TextView android:id="@android:id/empty"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</RelativeLayout>

Answer 1

Do you want the button to always be visible, or to only be visible once you read the end of the list? If the former, then you use something like a relativelayout with a footer button set to alignparentbottom and below the listview. If the latter, then call listview.addFooterView, passing in whatever view you’d like.