How to show an empty view with a RecyclerView?

I am used to put an special view inside the layout file as described in the ListActivity documentation to be displayed when there is no data. This view has the id “android:id/empty”. <TextView android:id=”@android:id/empty” android:layout_width=”wrap_content” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:text=”@string/no_data” /> I wonder how this can be done with the new RecyclerView? 15 Answers 15