listview with arraylist,simple adapter in android

Question

I try to show something into listview using arraylist and simple adapter. I tried something like below but in my result shows the last names of the arraylist. What is my wro

Answer 1

My advice to you would be to create a separate class that extends the Adapter(or some subclass of it)

Here is a simple example of a String array adapter.

package ro.gebs.captoom.adapters;

import android.content.Context;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import antistatic.spinnerwheel.adapters.AbstractWheelTextAdapter;

import com.example.captoom.R;

public class LanguagesAdapter extends AbstractWheelTextAdapter {
    // Countries names
    private String languages[];

    public LanguagesAdapter(Context context) {
        super(context, R.layout.lang_item, NO_RESOURCE);
        languages = context.getResources().getStringArray(R.array.lang_array);
        setItemTextResource(R.id.language_txt);
    }

    @Override
    public View getItem(int index, View cachedView, ViewGroup parent) {
        View view = super.getItem(index, cachedView, parent);
        return view;
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemsCount() {
        return languages.length;
    }

    @Override
    protected CharSequence getItemText(int index) {
        return languages[index];
    }
}

and the usage is simple just use the method .setAdapter();

Or another example which uses an arrayAdapter:

package apc.example;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import utils.BitmapManager;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class PersonAdapter extends ArrayAdapter {

    Context context;
    int layoutResourceId;
    ArrayList data = null;

    public PersonAdapter(Context context, int layoutResourceId,
            ArrayList data) {
        super(context, layoutResourceId, data);
        this.layoutResourceId = layoutResourceId;
        this.context = context;
        this.data = data;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        View row = convertView;
        ItemHolder holder = null;

        if (row == null) {
            LayoutInflater inflater = ((Activity) context).getLayoutInflater();
            row = inflater.inflate(layoutResourceId, parent, false);

            holder = new ItemHolder();
            holder.imgIcon = (ImageView) row.findViewById(R.id.icon);
            holder.txtName = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.title);
            holder.txtDescription = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.desc);

            row.setTag(holder);
        } else {
            holder = (ItemHolder) row.getTag();
        }

        Person bean = data.get(position);
        holder.txtName.setText(bean.getName());
        holder.txtDescription.setText(bean.getDescription());


        Bitmap b = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), R.drawable.user);
        BitmapManager.INSTANCE.setPlaceholder(b);
        BitmapManager.INSTANCE.loadBitmap(bean.getUrl(), holder.imgIcon, 80, 80);

        return row;
    }

    public static class ItemHolder {
        public ImageView imgIcon;
        TextView txtName;
        TextView txtDescription;
    }

    public void updateAdapter(ArrayList pers){
        this.data = pers;
    }
}

This is an example of an adapter for a more complex class that has more fields rather than a simple string. But that can easily be modified to ArrayAdapter and then go from there.

Anyways i think it's always a best practice to write your custom adapters for listviews.

Hope this helps!