Android displaying text when ListView is empty

I'm guessing you are using a regular Fragment or Activity with a ListView inside of it. If you are, you must add the empty layout to the ListView manually.

E.g.

ListView lv = (ListView)findViewById(android.R.id.list);
TextView emptyText = (TextView)findViewById(android.R.id.empty);
lv.setEmptyView(emptyText);

Then your ListView will automatically use this view when its adapter is empty

If you are using a ListActivity you do not need to call setEmptyView() on the ListView since the ListActivity automatically manages that for you.

Set a TextView and assign to it whatever you want to display when the ListView is empty:

ProjectListAdapter projectListAdapter = new ProjectListAdapter();
TextView empty=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.empty);
projectsListView.setEmptyView(empty);

And in my xml file we write the below code

<TextView
      android:id="@+id/empty"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_gravity="center"
      android:gravity="center"
      android:text="Your text here"
      android:textColor="#FFFFFF" />