How to preview Android ListView with custom row and header layout

Question

I have created a list view with a custom layout for the header and rows items many times but what always annoys me is the UI preview in Android Studio does not show a preview. Obviously because the custom layouts are loaded programmatically by the ListView or CursorAdapter but what if I wanted to some how specify a header and footer layout in xml so that I could see a preview. Any one know how to do that?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25193983/how-to-preview-android-listview-with-custom-row-and-header-layout

Answer 1

You can use tools:listitem. Just add the tools namespace in the root of the layout

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    (...)

and then in your ListView set your list item layout

 <ListView
    android:id="@+id/mylistView"
    tools:listitem="@layout/my_list_item"
    (...)

Is also possible to set header/footer with listheader/listfooter.