Im creating an in app chat and I cant figure out how to keep the listview I have implemented to keep from growing down below the edittext box I set up to take user chat. Whats happening now is that new lines add to the listview just fine but after the list grows large enough it starts to add to itself below the edittext box. I find that pretty annoying and imagine a user would too so my question is:
How can I keep a listview from growing downwards.
Id like for new fields/text to add to the bottom of the listview but be placed ontop of the edittext just like any normal chat would do.
It’s very easy, simply set the transcriptMode. If you do it from XML, you have the choice between normal and alwaysScroll:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/AbsListView.html#attr_android:transcriptMode
This is how the built-in Google Talk and SMS/MMS applications are implemented (they use the normal transcript mode.)