I have a problem with lists.
I want to implement a scrollable big list, each element of which contains a text on the left side and a NON-scrollable inner list on the right side. (for example: the name of the flat and the list of its inhabitants names)
Both lists should be filled from the cursors and contain an informatio about them: I want to have an oppurtunitz to get all cursos fields when I click an element of the inner list.
As far as I understood I's not possible to solve it with two ListViews. ExpandableListView does not pass me because I do not want to expand the first list, I want to have the inner list always visible.
Do you have any ideas how can I realize it?
Try using a ListView for your big list, and an empty LinearLayout in each item. You fill the LinearLayout of each item programmatically in the big list adapters getView(..) method, where int position is the item number.
See also: android nested listview
Edit: Or use an ExpandableListView, which items you expand programmatically without animation with expandGroup(int position, boolean animate). Prevent collapsing by setting an ExpandableListView.OnGroupCollapseListener, in which you expand the group again. (seems a bit hacky)
Dokumentation: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ExpandableListView.html
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Let me explain this--
For example - I have a custom list view set up that shows 3 text fields in a group.. I.e. each click able item in that list view will have 3 texts.. so now I want to get the 2nd text view at the 5th index of that listview...How to achieve this?
If a have a basic listview with only one item at each index, then this can be achieved by using getItemAtPosition().
Is this similar in the above case also?
You don't. THe entire point of a listview is that it DOESNT create views for every element in the list- only the ones on screen. So if your list is more than trivially long, it probably doesn't have a view for that item. If you think you need this, you're probably architecting your code wrong for a listview.
I have a listview in android with several columns, and for each column I want to set a separate title, as shown in this example below (I mean the fields 'Name and Number', 'SMS, 'Phone'):
(The image is just to explain what I want; in my layout there are more columns which are not as self-explaining as in the example).
Is there a good way to do that? Als, is it possible that this title row can be visible at all time, even when I have many many rows and scroll down?
If you want to have a fixed header item in the list that doesn't scroll with the other items, use ListView's addHeaderView to indicate which view(s) should stick to the top.
If you just want the first item to be different than the others, you'll have to code your ListAdapter to have two types of views, one for the header, and another for the rest. This involves
Making getViewTypeCount return 2 to say it can make two different kinds of views.
Making getItemViewType return 0 or 1 to say which type of view will be generated for the given position in the list.
Making getView return the correct view object for the given position in the list.
Presumably you'd want position 0 to be the header view and all other positions to be data.
Just like a ListView but instead it doesn't scroll. Its content is added programatically via an ArrayAdapter. Is there any view that can be used for this purpose?
PS: Not LinearLayout, since it doesn't get its content from an adapter (I want the observer pattern)
Edit: Let me explain a little bit more. Suppose you need a list of items, but the list itself is not scrollable, what is scrollable is the screen.
That being said, the list of items should show ALL items, not a limited amount based on a fixed height. The way to go is LinearLayout as it is both non-scrollable and shows all items within itself.
But there is a third requierement. You don't want to add(View) directly, but instead, you want something similar to an ArrayAdapter so that you have a control of the items and their position, so you can handle on item click events based on their position. As far as I know, this can't be done using a LinearLayout. So my question is, does any view exist for this purpose?
You could try using a ListView, but disable scrolling, as described here
Put your layout inside a ScrollView and yes you have to use a Linearlayout. You need to set tag for each of your view that you add dynamically and whenever your view is clicked you can get it's position by view.getTag() and perform the required operation.
Note : Adding views at run time may affect performance.
I have a Listview in my Android app, and I want there to be some horizontal lines when the list is empty to indicate to the user that this is a List. I know that there is the setEmptyView method on ListView, but I'm not sure what to put in that view if I want there to be list rows with horizontal lines. How would I accomplish this?
Having a bunch of horizontal lines for an empty list is an iOS convention. If you want your app to fit in with Android better you should set something else. Perhaps notify the user there was an error or that there are no items in the list. You can add this right to your layout.xml file if you're using a ListActivity. All you need to do is create a view and give it the id #android:id/empty.
put the listView in a FrameLayout and add another view in that Frame.
if you having any item in the list hide its (visiblity="gone") and show the other view.
OR
change your adapter to return multi ViewType
in your adapter if you have no item return other type of view
I have 2 ListView in a layout. I want each ListView show all their items. And scroll the whole layout.
A answer from one of the ListView Developers from the GoogleIO is: Never put a ListView in a ScrollView. This means if you want a ListView that is not scrolling as you are trying to do you maybe don't need a listview at all.
You could create a ListView put a Linearlayout in it and use the Adapters from the two Listviews to manually add the items of the list via linearlayout.addView Now you have one scrollable view that contains all items of the list. Because there is no recycling and only loading of the items in the list this is very inefficient and only usable if you don't have that much items.
The second more complicated way that you can go if you have say 20 items in each list is to use a custom adapter that takes the two listadapters and let you put all the items in one list.