is it possible to create listview inside dialog?

Question

i have created a custom dialog class

public class NewPost extends Dialog
{
// functionality

}

now my requirement is to create listview ins

Answer 1

You don't really have to extend listActivity in order to use listviews.

Extending listActivity will give you some functionality for free, such as getListView() (if I recall the method name correctly), but that can just as well be done manually with findViewById() just as any other view.

Answer 2

The simplest possible way:

    ListView listView = new ListView(this);
    listView.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, new String[] {"item 1", "item 2", "item 3"}));
    Dialog dialog = new Dialog(this);
    dialog.setContentView(listView);
    dialog.show();

Answer 3

You can use any layout for alert dialogs. If you want a listview I would do it like here

Answer 4

Yes.

You can always use a ListView inside a Dialog. And you definitely don't necessarily need ListActivity to create ListView.

Code may be something like this:

Dialog dlg = new Dialog(context);
LayoutInflater li = context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View v = li.inflate(R.layout.my_layout, null, false);
dlg.setContentView(v);
dlg.show();

my_layout.xml:

<ScrollView xmlns:android="blah"
   android:id="xid"
   android:layout_height="h"
   android:layout_width="w">

  <ListView blah blah blah attributes
  />

 </ScrollView>

Answer 5

this implementation doesn't require you to make any xml layouts. it was written as a case statement in "onCreateDialog" override, but you can adapt if for your purposes very easily:

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
builder.setTitle("Select Color Mode");

ListView modeList = new ListView(this);
String[] stringArray = new String[] { "Bright Mode", "Normal Mode" };
ArrayAdapter<String> modeAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, android.R.id.text1, stringArray);
modeList.setAdapter(modeAdapter);

builder.setView(modeList);
final Dialog dialog = builder.create();

dialog.show();

because you are making a dialog with only a ListView, you set the onItemClickListener of the ListView, as there isn't one for the basic dialog class.

modeList.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int i, long l) {
            switch(i) {
                case 0:
                    //do something for first selection
                    break;
                case 1:
                    //do something for second selection
                    break;
            }
            dialog.dismiss();
        }
    });

Answer 6

You can create a custom dialog with this layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
    android:background="@drawable/dialogs">
    <RelativeLayout 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingLeft="20dip"
        android:paddingRight="20dip"
        android:paddingTop="10dip">
        <ImageView 
            android:id="@+id/dialog_title_image"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:background="@drawable/info"/>
        <TextView 
            android:id="@+id/dialog_title"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
            android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
            android:layout_centerInParent="true"
            android:text="Title"
            android:layout_toRightOf="@id/dialog_title_image"
            android:textColor="@android:color/black"
            android:textSize="20sp"/>

        <!-- Lista -->
    </RelativeLayout>
    <TextView 
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="3dip"
            android:background="#1e90ff"/>
    <ListView
            android:id="@+id/component_list"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    <!-- Fine lista -->

    <RelativeLayout 
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingTop="10dip"
        android:paddingLeft="10dp"
        android:paddingRight="10dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
        android:gravity="bottom|center_horizontal"
        android:paddingBottom="20dip">
        <Button 
            android:id="@+id/positive_button"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_width="120dip"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:background="#1e90ff"
            android:textColor="@android:color/white"
            android:text="@string/close"/>

    </RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>

create a custom layout also for each item if you want:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingTop="10dp"
    android:paddingBottom="10dp"
    android:paddingLeft="10dp"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/title"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Large Text"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />


    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/subtitle"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Small Text"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" />


</LinearLayout>

and then use an arraylist to populate the list and set the view:

        //creation and population of the list
        List<Component> my_list = new ArrayList<Component>();
        createComponents();

        //adapter
        array_adapter = new ComponentAdapter(context, R.layout.component,my_list);

        //button to show the dialog
        Button button = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);

        button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                list_dialog = new Dialog(context);
                list_dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
                list_dialog.getWindow().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT));
                list_dialog.setContentView(R.layout.list_dialog);

                ListView list = (ListView)list_dialog.findViewById(R.id.component_list);
                list.setAdapter(array_adapter);

                Button positiveButton = (Button) list_dialog.findViewById(R.id.positive_button);

                positiveButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){

                    @Override
                    public void onClick(View arg0) {

                        list_dialog.dismiss();  
                    }
                });

                list_dialog.show();     
            }
        });


    }

References: http://pillsfromtheweb.blogspot.it/2014/10/android-listview-inside-alertdialog.html#links

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