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Android: ListView xml layout not showing background image when scrolled

I have an Activity with a ListView, I set the background image to the view programatically.
When I scroll down my list, the background image turns to white ( because my theme is Theme.Light.NoTitleBar).
How can I make it scroll with the blue background intact?
If the above point works, how can I change the text color of ListView to white instead of black?
Normal ListView
Scrolling ListView
Pressing ListView item

Use the attribute android:cacheColorHint="#000000" in ListView Tag
Regarding make TextView's color black or white, you can refer here to make a custom TextView for your ListView row, The extra work you have to do is just add another attribut inside TextView tag like this
android:textColor="#FFF" //or #FFFFFF for white

add a attribute on the ListView Tag
android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"// setting as a transparent color

This is due because of an optimization. To remove this, just set the cacheColorHint of your listView to transparent, like this: android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
Full post here: http://android-developers.blogspot.fr/2009/01/why-is-my-list-black-android.html

You can Wrap that ListView inside on LinearLayout having same background and then remove ListView's Background that should work fine. :)

Please check this answer. I have got the same issue and it is fixed by putting view = null in adapter side.

How to get some space below my last list item alone- android

I have a list whose height is set to "fill parent". everything works fine but my last item in list touches the bottom of my screen. how can i get some space below my last list item.

You can add an empty view as footer: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ListView.html#addFooterView(android.view.View)
AFAIK there's no way to do that only with XML, you can declare the footer in XML and inflate, or create programmatically
Here is a 3-liner to add a spacer programmatically:
View listFooter = new View(this);
listFooter.setLayoutParams(new AbsListView.LayoutParams(AbsListView.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, 70)));
listView.addFooterView(listFooter);

uhmm.. seeing that you don't want padding, print a blank line (or transparent text) on a textview located after your listview. Or print a "extra" item on your listview.

you could use the Space widget
<android.support.v4.widget.Space
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="10dp"/>

can simply set the margin in the list ............
if need only bottom margin then use : android:layout_marginBottom=

Empty space between listview header and first item

I've created an android application with a ListView. I've added both a header and footer to the list. But when adding a divider/separator it also creates an empty space between the header and the first ListView item. It does the same for the last ListView item and the footer.
The empty space is equivalent to the size of the divider between all the ListView items, with the difference that it doesn't draw the divider and just leaves empty space. I thought I found the solution with the xml attributes 'Footer dividers enabled' and 'Header dividers enabled'. But when setting them to false, it doesn't change anything. I even tried to set them programmatically with
list.setFooterDividerEnabled(false);
list.setHeaderDividerEnabled(false);
But it just doesn't work. Any way to fix that problem? I just don't want the empty space to be there, I want the first item to fit exactly to the header (same for the footer).

I stumbled upon the same problem, but in a slightly different situation than yours. My ListView has a header (a search box), but the first item below it contains a section header (a date, or a letter) rather than being a regular list item (with the actual content in form of an image, some text, and so on). As such, I want it not to be selectable, so in my custom adapter I have overridden areAllItemsEnabled to return false.
Big mistake, because that's exactly the culprit. See, it appears that, by design, the ListView implementation only draw dividers between two enabled items, but still reserve space for dividers between an enabled item and a disabled one even if those dividers will not be drawn. The fact this is a conscious design decision does not mean it's not stupid, of course. Most weird of all, this dividers drawing policy is based just on the value returned by areAllItemsEnabled instead of the values returned by single calls to isEnabled for subsequent items.
Thus, to work around it, I just had to return true from areAllItemsEnabled (I kept the overridden method and add a comment about this issue, otherwise I would not be able to remember it a month from now): lo and behold, white space disappeared, replaced by a divider. Now, if I want to show the ListView header and the first section header as being exactly adjacent, I just have to choose a divider color that's the same as the section header color.
Really hope that's the same case as yours, or that my solution helps you in some other way.

I tried a solution by 幻影浪子 that works (based on android-pulltorefresh):
View Layout (header.xml):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<ProgressBar
style="#android:style/Widget.ProgressBar.Small.Inverse"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_margin="16dp"
android:layout_marginTop="2dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Inflating View:
m_headerView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.header, this, false);
Displaying View:
m_headerView.setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0);
m_headerView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
Hiding View:
m_headerView.setPadding(0, -1000, 0, 0);
m_headerView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
It worked perfectly in our project. I hope it is helpful.

In getview method you can check if the item is first or last and set custom devider which will be of 0 height or single pixel height of transparent color.

goto the ListView properties in android layout and search for spacing tag... some how in android, when creating new layouts, it will defaults creation is spacing header spacing and border properties. check it , if it is available then remove it

Didn't find a great solution.
Set dividerHeight="0dp" and created my own dividers manually - either directly in the layout XML or dynamically in the adapter if you need more precise control.

Just do
list.setDividerHeight(0)
That should take care of it.

Android - making ExpandableListView elements have transparent backgrounds

I have an expandable list view I am using in one xml file which has a background. Upon loading, it looks fine, but sometimes while browsing the background of each list element shows infront of the background of the base view.
The list elements are defined in their own xml file.
Can I make the list elements backgrounds become transparent somehow, so that the background of the baseview is shown all the time instead, even when expanding/collapsing the view?

The answer can be found here :)
http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/listview-backgrounds.html
Use
android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
On your list

Set this all four properties for expandablelistview. It worked for me....
android:childDivider="#android:color/transparent"
android:listSelector="#android:color/transparent"
android:cacheColorHint="#android:color/transparent"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
Or programmatically set expandablelistview transperent:
ExpListview SecondLevelexplv = new ExpListview(mContext);
SecondLevelexplv.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
SecondLevelexplv.setCacheColorHint(Color.TRANSPARENT);
SecondLevelexplv.setDivider(new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT));
SecondLevelexplv.setSelector(android.R.color.transparent);

How do I set an empty ListView's background image?

How yo set listview background like this.
I want to appear when the number of record 0

There is special method in ListView - setEmptyView(). You can find examples of using it here or here.
Upd: second link is unavailable now. Here is quote from article:
When you set a ListView’s “empty view” programmatically, you can end up scratching your head as to why your empty view actually doesn’t appear when the list is empty.
If this happens, then what you forgot is that you must manually add your empty view to your view hierarchy, cos ListView won’t do it for you. Although it’s obvious when you think about it, the documentation doesn’t mention this detail, and Googling shows at least one person had the problem.
Here’s the code with the lines that it’s all too easy to forget at numbers 4 and 5…
TextView emptyView = new TextView(context);
emptyView.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT));
emptyView.setText(“This appears when the list is empty”);
emptyView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
((ViewGroup)list.getParent()).addView(emptyView);
list.setEmptyView(emptyView);

Just set a background image at the parent layout and then set the color of the ListView to fully transparent:
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
style="#style/Main" android:background="#drawable/background">
<ListView android:cacheColorHint="#00000000" .../>
</LinearLayout>

Read the documentation of the ListActiviy. You can define a view which will automatically shown when the list is empty and has not items. The view for the empty list got to have the id android:id/empty.
So no need to play around with the background.

You can set a drawable as background with ListView.setBackgroundDrawable()

You need to check before passing array/arraylist into adapter ,if the length of array/arraylist is 0 then add this image to your main layout.