Question

When my Listview contains no items I have set 2 empty layoutcomponents in my XML. Is it possible to address either one of these components in code? Because the button has to be below the TextView, but when it’s not in XML, the app crashes because it finds the TextView first.

My XML looks like this:

    <ListView android:id="@+id/android:list" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:drawSelectorOnTop="false" />
    <Button 
    android:id="@android:id/empty"
    android:layout_margin="5dip"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Toon dichtstbijzijnde kantoor" 
    android:gravity="center"/>  

    <TextView android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:id="@+id/android:empty"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:text="Er zijn geen jobs die voldoen aan uw criteria..."
    android:gravity="center"/>

Update:
with following code it runs perfectly, but the button is not shown…

    <ListView android:id="@+id/android:list" 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:drawSelectorOnTop="false" />

    <LinearLayout android:id="@android:id/empty"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:gravity="center">

    <TextView android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:id="@+id/TestText"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:text="Er zijn geen jobs die voldoen aan uw criteria..."
    android:gravity="center"/>

    <Button 
    android:id="@+id/Test"
    android:layout_margin="5dip"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Toon dichtstbijzijnde kantoor" 
    /> 
    </LinearLayout> 

Answer 1

Just put the Button and the TextView into a LinearLayout

<LinearLayout android:id="@android:id/empty">
    <Button />
    <TextView />
</LinearLayout>