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Android Build a Blog Reader Android App Adapting Data for Display in a List Cleaning Up Our Presentation

Noam Elbaz
Noam Elbaz
5,672 Points
Posted by Noam Elbaz
Noam Elbaz
5,672 Points

Empty Text View (Blog Reader - Stage 4 - Adapting Data for Display in a list)

I'm on Android Studio: A few minutes in to the video, Ben switched a textView into an empty text view, which we will be referencing in code with the line: TextView emptyTextView = (TextView) getListView().getEmptyView();

i did not see any easy option to switch the textView to an Empty text view in android studio and setting the text in the XML to = "" did not seem to work.

Stuck.

.... and yes i did google it.

Thanks

3 Answers

kylan hill
kylan hill
3,125 Points
kylan hill
kylan hill
3,125 Points

Did you set the id of the TextView to empty in the xml file?

<TextView  android:id="@android:id/empty"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true" />
Noam Elbaz
Noam Elbaz
5,672 Points
Noam Elbaz
Noam Elbaz
5,672 Points

kylan hill - that's all he meant? to change the id to empty?

thanks.

kylan hill
kylan hill
3,125 Points

Yes, np best of luck

Roman Kozak
Roman Kozak
3,119 Points
Roman Kozak
Roman Kozak
3,119 Points

Worked for me, thanks!