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inflate footer view is slow

I have a problem using the footer of my list view. In fact, I inflate an xml and I send it to the footerView. When my activity appears, my listview is showing and after two or three seconds (sometimes more) my footer is showing. Why is it so long ?
Here is a part of my code :
private View footerView;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
footerView = ((LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE)).inflate(R.layout.order_footer_item, null);
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}
// This is Android annotation
#AfterViews
protected void setAfterViews() {
Adapter adapter = new Adapter();
list.setAdapter(adapter);
list.setOnItemClickListener(adapter);
TextView text = (TextView) footerView.findViewById(R.id.text);
text.setText("Test");
list.addFooterView(footerView);
}
I have no problem except slowing. Why ? How can I improve that ?
Thx in advance

Add it before setting adapter.
list.addFooterView(footerView);
And then
list.setAdapter(adapter);

This was a tricky problem for me. After spending quite a while working on it I realized that I was giving a parent parameter to the .inflate(view,parent,boolean) method instead of leaving it as null because I handle it with the getListView().addFooterView() method.
Error:
TextView footerView = (TextView) ((LayoutInflater) this.getSystemService(LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE)).inflate(R.layout.footer_view, this.getListView(), true);
this.getListView().addFooterView(footerView);
Fix:
TextView footerView = (TextView) ((LayoutInflater) this.getSystemService(LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE)).inflate(R.layout.footer_view, null, false);
this.getListView().addFooterView(footerView);

First, you should probably create the footer view in the onCreateView, where you get a LayoutInflater inflate and a ViewGroup container.
Then, you'd call
inflater.inflate(R.layout.footer_view, container, false);
And the rest as per vipul mittal solution.

Unable to add footerview to PullToRefreshListView

I am using:
https://github.com/chrisbanes/Android-PullToRefresh
PullToRefreshListView listView = (PullToRefreshListView) findViewById(R.id.listView);
footerView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.footer, listView, false);
listView.addFooterView(footerView);
I get the Error:
The method addFooterView(View) is undefined for the type
PullToRefreshListView
How to solve it?
Thank You

To add footer view, you have to get the pure ListView first then you can use it to add Footer View. You have to call getRefreshableView() to get pure ListView. Here is the sample code:
PullToRefreshListView listView = (PullToRefreshListView) findViewById(R.id.listView);
footerView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.footer, listView, false);
//get ListView object first, and then add footer view
listView.getRefreshableView().addFooterView(footerView);

You should get the normal ListView first, then use the normal ListView's addFooterView function.
ListView mList = listView.getRefreshableView();
mList.addFooterView(footerView);

How to add a view as ListView header

I have a View extending google MapView. And a ListView with items. What I need is to put MyMapView as a header to the list view. Help please what to do
Update: When I try to do this:
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
ListView list = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.list);
View m = inflater.inflate(R.layout.map, list, false);
list.addHeaderView(m);
I got an error:
MapViews can only be created inside an instances of MapActivity
I think it's because I have removed my xml layout for map into different.xml from my activity

Try this
Create your ListViewHeader.xml first
and do this
ListView lv = getListView(); // Your listView
LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
ViewGroup header = (ViewGroup)inflater.inflate(R.layout.YourHeader, lv, false);
lv.addHeaderView(header, null, false);
take a look on Android: Adding static header to the top of a ListActivity

Try to call
ListView.addHeaderView (View v)
before you set adapter to this ListView

if you are using a custom adapter, in getView() method provide different view at position 0.
if(position==0)
{
//Provide header view
}
else
{
//provide normal row
}

You can do the following to add a view as ListView header in android.
ListView list = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.list);
LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
ViewGroup viewGroup= (ViewGroup)inflater.inflate(R.layout.YourLayoutFile,list, false);
list.addHeaderView(viewGroup, null, false);

This works, but is it the "right" way?

I'm reusing the ListView AND the LayoutInflater here for both a header and a footer:
ListView lv = getListView();
LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
View header = (View)inflater.inflate(R.layout.header, lv, false);
lv.addHeaderView(header, null, false);
View footer = (View)inflater.inflate(R.layout.footer, lv, false);
lv.addFooterView(footer, null, false);
I reckon reusing the ListView is perfectly sensible, but I'm not so sure about the LayoutInflater. Am I flirting with disaster here, or is this okay?

Please refer to : http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ListView.html#getFooterViewsCount()
Returns the number of footer views in the list. Footer views are
special views at the bottom of the list that should not be recycled
during a layout.
So yeah... I don't think you are doing anything wrong.

Using ListView : How to add a header view?

I looke at the ListView API
and I saw the method:
addHeaderView(View v)
What I want to do is to have a layout above the list, is this possible ?
I tried doing something like :
EditText et=new EditText(this);
et.setLayoutParams(new Gallery.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
et.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
addHeaderView(et); //makes app crash
I also tried
setContentView(R.layout.tryview);
but it also make the app crash.
Help is very much appreciated!
Edit : The code for this class is:
public class GroupsActivity extends ListActivity {
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
String your_array_contents[] = {"a","ab","c"};
setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.groups_layout, your_array_contents));
EditText et=new EditText(this);
et.setLayoutParams(new Gallery.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
et.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
ListView lv = getListView();
lv.setTextFilterEnabled(true);
lv.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE);
lv.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(GroupsActivity.this,
android.R.layout.simple_list_item_multiple_choice, your_array_contents));
lv.addHeaderView(et); //makes app crash
lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
int position, long id) {
// When clicked, show a toast with the TextView text
// Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), ((TextView) view).getText(),
//Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
});
}
}

You can add as many headers as you like by calling addHeaderView() multiple times. You have to do it before setting the adapter to the list view.
And yes you can add header something like this way:
LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
ViewGroup header = (ViewGroup)inflater.inflate(R.layout.header, myListView, false);
myListView.addHeaderView(header, null, false);

You simply can't use View as a Header of ListView.
Because the view which is being passed in has to be inflated.
Look at my answer at Android ListView addHeaderView() nullPointerException for predefined Views for more info.
EDIT:
Look at this tutorial Android ListView and ListActivity - Tutorial .
EDIT 2: This link is broken Android ListActivity with a header or footer

I found out that inflating the header view as:
inflater.inflate(R.layout.listheader, container, false);
being container the Fragment's ViewGroup, inflates the headerview with a LayoutParam that extends from FragmentLayout but ListView expect it to be a AbsListView.LayoutParams instead.
So, my problem was solved solved by inflating the header view passing the list as container:
ListView list = fragmentview.findViewById(R.id.listview);
View headerView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.listheader, list, false);
then
list.addHeaderView(headerView, null, false);
Kinda late answer but I hope this can help someone