Question

No, it’s not a duplicate.

I have a ListView (not the View in a layout xml file, the View as class) and want to display a view for the empty state.
The addView method isn’t available, simple replacing the ListView doesn’t work, because the parent is a ViewPager.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

My parent is a ViewPager and I can’t figure out how to create a view on only one page

Your pages for your ViewPager are being created by some form of PagerAdapter. Presumably, from the way you are describing things, you rolled your own PagerAdapter, rather than using one of the built-in fragment-based ones. And, presumably, that PagerAdapter is returning a ListView for one or more of the pages, for which you want an “empty view”.

Simply put: you are going to have to change that PagerAdapter. Instead of returning a ListView, return something like a FrameLayout containing your ListView and your “empty view”. Whether you create those objects in Java or via inflating a layout resource is up to you. Along the way, call setEmptyView() on the ListView to tie the ListView and the “empty view” together.