Common Header in different activities using BaseActivity in android

For this you have to create one header.xml which will be included in each and every layout for your activities as follows

header.xml

<RelativeLayout>
  <TextView android:id="@+id/txtHeading"
      .... />
</RelativeLayout>

activity_main.xml

<RelativeLayout>
  <!-- include your header here -->
  <include layout="@layout/header"
     ... />

  <!-- Rest of your views -->

</RelativeLayout>

BaseActivity

abstract class BaseActivity extends Activity {
  protected TextView txtHeading;
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
     super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  }


  protected void setHeading(int resId) {
     if(txtHeading == null)
     txtHeading = findViewById(R.id.txtHeading);
     if(txtHeading != null)
       txtHeading.setText(resId);
  }
}

MainActivity

class MainActivity extends BaseActivity {
   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
      setHeading(R.string.heading_main);
   }
}

You can put as many views you want and manage common things in BaseActivity or BaseListActivity.