Android: How can you align a button at the bottom and listview above?

A FrameLayouts purpose is to overlay things on top of each other. This is not what you want.

In your RelativeLayout example you set the ListViews height and width to MATCH_PARENT this is going to make it take up the same amount of space as its parent, and thus take up all of the space on the page (and covers the button).

Try something like:

<LinearLayout 
   android:layout_width="match_parent" 
   android:layout_height="match_parent" 
   android:orientation="vertical">
  <ListView 
     android:layout_width="match_parent" 
     android:layout_height="0dip" 
     android:layout_weight="1"/>
  <Button 
     android:layout_width="match_parent" 
     android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
     android:layout_weight="0"/>
</LinearLayout>

The layout_weight dictates how the extra space is to be used. The Button does not want to stretch beyond the space it requires, so it has a weight of 0. The ListView wants to take up all of the extra space, so it has a weight of 1.

You could accomplish something similar using a RelativeLayout, but if it is just these two items then I think a LinearLayout is simpler.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:orientation="vertical"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent"
      android:background="#ffffff"
  >

    <ListView android:id="@+id/ListView01" 
      android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
      android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
      android:layout_weight="1">
    </ListView>

    <FrameLayout android:id="@+id/FrameLayout01" 
      android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
      android:layout_height="wrap_content">
         <Button android:id="@+id/Button01" 
              android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
              android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
              android:text="button" 
              android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal">
        </Button>
    </FrameLayout>

  </LinearLayout>

Here is the design you are looking for. Try it.