Question

my app needs to display data in a list, I walked through some tutorials and figured out to use a header.xml and row.xml. It works fine but now I would like to add more stuff on my header.xml and I found out that the entire header.xml is scrolling with the row.xml as well, which I dont really want.
Any solution that doesn’t require me to rewrite and change my code style completely?

Activity:

public class HistoryActivity extends ListActivity
{

private static final String TAG = "HistoryActivity";
ListView lv;
SimpleAdapter sd;

RecordDAO dao = new RecordDAO(HistoryActivity.this);

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    lv = getListView();
    lv.addHeaderView(getLayoutInflater().inflate(
            R.layout.header, null, false));


}

@Override
protected void onResume()
{
    super.onResume();
    ArrayList<Record> Records = new ArrayList<Record>();
    Records = (ArrayList<Record>) dao.findAll();


    ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> aList = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();
    HashMap<String, String> map;

    for (int x = Records.size()-1; x >=0; x--)
    {
        map = new HashMap<String, String>();
        map.put(....// all my data 

        aList.add(map);
    }

    sd = new SimpleAdapter(this, aList, R.layout.row,
            new String[]
            { "date", "name", "time",
                    "rating" }, new int[]              
            { R.id.date, R.id.name, R.id.time,
                     R.id.rating});


    lv.setAdapter(sd);

    lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener()
    {

        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View view, int arg2,
                long arg3)
        {
            TextView tx = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.date);
            String s = tx.getText().toString();
            Intent intent = new Intent(HistoryActivity.this, EditRecordActivity.class);
            intent.putExtra("date", s);
            startActivity(intent);

        }
    });

}

private void insertNewRecord()
{
    dao.add(newRecord);
}

}

header.xml:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:clickable="true"
    android:orientation="vertical" >


    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:paddingBottom="6dip"
        android:paddingTop="4dip" >

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="Date"
            android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
            android:textSize="16dp" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="name"
            android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
            android:textSize="16dp" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="Time"
            android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
            android:textSize="16dp" />

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="Rating"
            android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
            android:textSize="16dp" />
    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

row.xml:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:paddingBottom="6dip"
    android:paddingTop="4dip" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/date"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/name"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/time"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/Rating"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF" />

</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

Don’t use ListActivity. I think it is a bad practice. Use a regular Activity. Just insert a ListView with an id “@android:id/list” into header.xml.

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:clickable="true"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:paddingBottom="6dip"
    android:paddingTop="4dip" >

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="Date"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
        android:textSize="16dp" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="name"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
        android:textSize="16dp" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="Time"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
        android:textSize="16dp" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="Rating"
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
        android:textSize="16dp" />
</LinearLayout>

<ListView
    android:id="@android:id/list"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
</ListView>

And you can get the list reference by doing:
ListView lv = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.list);