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Asked: 2026-06-14T12:26:51+00:00

I’m using a ListView with a custom adapter to receive a JSON response and

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I’m using a ListView with a custom adapter to receive a JSON response and put it into a nice list – works great.

I’m now testing various exceptions and error handling and am catching errors received from my web API within the Android app. This all works great, handles well – but for the life of me I can’t work out how to change the ’empty view’ of a ListView once it has been set once.

It’s within a fragment, if that makes any difference – but the ProgressBar and ListView are defined in an XML layout which is inflated in the Fragment. I have a TextView also inside there which contains some error text – I want to know how to switch the ProgressBar out for the TextView onError()!

Edit: Currently the ListView uses the ProgressBar as the empty view – I want to know how to later change this to another view – XML defined or programmatic.

The UI thread is not being locked as all API calls are carried out on an AsyncTask, so that’s not the issue.

ListView.removeAllViews() caused a fairly imminent crash.

Apologies if this is trivial…

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could define the empty view to be a FrameLayout and put whatever you want the empty state be inside that view and change it the way you’d change contents of any other view.

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