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ListView populates from the bottom instead of from the top

I have a listView that expands upwards instead of downwards.
I have another listView on another page that works just fine and populates itself from the top -> bot.
Why does my listView start from the bottom instead of the top?
My XML
`
<ListView
android:id="#+id/list_view_showRegister"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="#+id/showRegister"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_marginTop="50dp"
android:clickable="false" >
</ListView>`

Your ListView is still actually populating from the top downwards. Just not from the top of the page.
You have set the layout_height="wrap_content" and the layout_above="#+id/showRegister". With the height being wrap_content, the view will only be as large as it's contents. Then, due to the fact you have used layout_above, it will be directly above another view.
The listview is not filling from the bottom, it is filling from the top (of the listview) - but the listview itself is only starting from halfway up the screen. Anything above the listview is not actually part of the listview, but empty space instead.
The solution is to either set the layout_height="match_parent", or remove the layout_above tag.
I know this is an old question but I hope this helps anyone else who may have found this issue via google.

Have a look a these links. Is it possible to make a ListView populate from the bottom?. populating from bottom.
Add new items to top of list view on Android?. Add new item at the top of list.

See for android:stackFromBottom attribute.

Is it possible to make a ListView populate from the bottom?

I have a simple application which basically consists of a line of buttons and a ListView of items to be selected and manipulated. There might be only one item in the list or a few. However, I would prefer if the list would populate from the bottom of the ListView, since the way most people hold their phones makes it easier to select items closer to the bottom of the screen. Is this possible?

You can have the ListView stack its items from the bottom up using a simple XML property
under the xml -
<ListView
android:stackFromBottom="true"
...
></ListView>
Please read #The Berga answer to otherwise this won't work.

Joe answer is correct but it's important to point out that it only works if the ListView's width and height are set to match_parent or fill_parent.
If set to wrap_content it still will populate from top to bottom.

I tried android:stackFromBottom="true" with android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" but it didn't work
finally
Adapter.insert(post,0);
saved my day. Here post is the class which is returning data to be added

These are a must tags for the reverse populating of the list view.
<ListView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:stackFromBottom="true"
</ListView>

android How to add list view in a scrollview

I have a layout requirement like below,
Textview
TextView
ListView
Edit Text
Button
Since listview cannot fit in landscape, I want to have list view onwards (ie. listview, edittext and button) to be a scroll view.
I know listview cannot be used inside a scrollview, but is there a way to do that ?
Any working example will be appreciated.

99% of android developers think we should not use ListView inside a ScrollView because both are scrollbale views and only parent can be scrollable, so it wraps the ListView.
Its 100% correct. But we have to use tricks to avoid this and to achieve our requirements.
I found one trick in web, which is setting the height of ListView based on the list items. Just check the link below, you will get an example code to calculate the height of ListView to fit inside a ScollView.
Android ListView height calculation to fit in ScrollView
The problem with this code is the list view will be filled entire screen if more children are available.
You have to use below template to achieve solution to your requirement.
<ScrollView >
<LinearLayout vertical>
<TextView />
<TextView />
<ListView />
<EditText />
<Button />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
I saw one video on youtube, Android ListView inside a ScrollView which is showing we can limit the height of listview, can be scrollable and used inside a ScrollView. I don't know how the programmer achieved that.
I am also thinking to produce same result by avoiding above example code. I hope it may help you temporarily. Please let me know if you got solution.

The better solution for this kind of layout is that You should use relative layout and fix ur EditText and Button at the bottom of ur screen like i have in my list view(see the image below) so that you wont need to add ScrollView in ur layout.

Just do this
<ScrollView>
<LinearLayout>
<ListView>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
Then add your
EditText
Button

Sort of a round about way to do what you want to do without a scroll view.
Write a custom adapter for your ListView
Assume you have an array of n elements that you want to populate the ListView with and then the EditText and the Button. So number of elements will be n+2
In the getView for the position n+1 return a view which has an EditText box instead of the normal list item
For the n+2 position return a Button.
Don't try to wrap around a ListView with a ScrollView, you will need up with lot of issues.
Note: I have not tested this, not even sure if it will work. Do let me know if it works. :)

Clicking on the entire row of Android ListView

I have Created a ListView and set a background image.Everything goes fine except I am unable to click on the right side of the row of ListView.Can anybody help me this.
Below is the xml file...
<ListView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/JSONListView"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/listbg"
android:focusable="false"
android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
android:visibility="visible" >
</ListView>
And I am not using any View.

Use the attribute
android:layout_width="match_parent"
and set click listener for items.

I guess you have created your custom adapter. If so, just go to the getView() method of that custom adapter and on the holder instance of that portion of listitem add a onCLickListener.

Provide more info. XML layout, etc.
Im guessing there is a view there or it is not filling the entire width but difficult to say.
Android ListView Activity

Hiding ListView Header / Hiding Single Divider in a List

I found this Hide footer view in ListView?. As Yoni poited out correctly, you can hide a header in a ListView by wrapping it into a FrameLayout and setVisibility() of the inner View to View.GONE. This works almost perfect for me, BUT:
As the FrameLayout still exists, the ListView adds two dividers to the displayed list. It seems like a single divider with a height of two dividers. Is there a way to hide a single divider of a ListView? Maybe it's possible to change the divider's color to the background, that would be fine for me, too. Any complete other ideas? Perfect!
Please help me. I'm not keen on spending two more hours of trial and error.
Thanks a lot!

Together with hiding or showing your header or footer, use these functions:
setFooterDividersEnabled()
setHeaderDividersEnabled()

you can use xml attributes to hide divider for header and footer in ListView
android:footerDividersEnabled="false"
android:headerDividersEnabled="false"

you can change the dividers color like this:
<ListView
android:id="#+id/android:list"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:divider="#android:color/transparent"
android:dividerHeight="2px"/>

For disable divider:
ListView.setDivider(null);