Passing from a listview to a gridview

Question

I have an activity with a list, whose items are made of an image+text. I need to allow the user to change the view and have a gridview instead of it (whose elements are still ma

Answer 1

There are several ways you could achieve that.

1. One solution is to have both the ListView and GridView stacked in a FrameLayout, and when you want to switch between these views, set the visibility GONE to one view and VISIBLE to another, then viceversa.

2. Put both the ListView and GridView in a ViewFlipper

3. Or, use a ViewSwitcher

4. And finally, use just a GridView, but when you want to transition to a list view, set programmatically the number of columns to 1.