fetch, enableEmptySections ?

listViewBasicsWithFetch.js

 import React, { Component } from 'react';
 import {
  AppRegistry,
  StyleSheet,
  Text,
  View,
  Image,
  TextInput,
  AlertIOS,
  ScrollView,
  ListView
} from 'react-native';


class ListViewBasics extends Component {
  // Initialize the hardcoded data
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    const ds = new ListView.DataSource({rowHasChanged: (r1, r2) => r1.title !== r2.title});
    this.state = {
        dataSource: ds.cloneWithRows([])
      }

    fetch('https://facebook.github.io/react-native/movies.json')
      .then((response) => response.json())
      .then((responseJson) => {
        return responseJson.movies;
      })
      .catch((error) => {
        console.error(error);
      })
      .then((movies) => {
        this.setState({dataSource: ds.cloneWithRows(movies)})
      })

  }

  async getMoviesFromApi() {
    try {
      let response = await fetch('https://facebook.github.io/react-native/movies.json');
      let responseJson = await response.json();
      return responseJson.movies;
    } catch(error) {
      console.error(error);
    }
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <View style={{paddingTop: 100, flex:1}}>
        <ListView
          enableEmptySections
          dataSource={this.state.dataSource}
          renderRow={(m) => m && m.title ? <Text>{`${m.title} (${m.releaseYear})`}</Text> : <Text/> }
        />
      </View>
    );
  }
}

 AppRegistry.registerComponent('AwesomeProject', () => ListViewBasics);