By default the loading spinner is shown for the ListView too. To demonstrate this I am attaching a screenshot in which I placed a debugger statement in the requestEnd event of the dataSource. Probably the request is too fast on your side and the spinner is shown for a very short time.
Regards,
Dimiter Madjarov
Telerik
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