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Android custom listview inside a window

i'm a complete beginner in android so i don't know how to explain it correctly,can anyone tell me how to create a custom listview inside another layout(i've seen tutorials showing how to make custom listviews out of xml files,in which they sets the contenview to the xml files and i couldn't find any tutorial to create a listview which already has other elements) ,what i'm trying to create is a windows with two listviews. When i click an item in the main listview the sub listview shows up which has a TextView, a rating bar and a button along with the itemname,
almost like this image
http://www.zdnet.com/i/story/60/01/054426/zdnet-box-playbook-listview.png
i believe you all understand what i'm trying to create

If what you want to do is a split view window with two diffrent Listviews that the one can pass data to another or update it in some way you need to take a look in List Fragments. There is a nice tutorial here : http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidFragments/article.html

Android list of boxes

I wonder if there is a tutorial or example code how the effect below achieved in Android, or if someone published an adapter already for this... Basically based on the number of results returned the screen is populated with boxes, and as the finger swipes down more boxes will load on demand until the results run out.

This is a GridView. And you can use your custom Load More GridView. This is a custom ListView example of the same. You can implement your own custom GridView similar to this.

What you are looking for is a Lazy List Adapter.
There is a great implementation for it. You can check it here. All what you need next is to create the layout of your list rows, i.e the boxes.

how to make listview like android market . i.e divided into two columns

I was wondering how to implement the listview like the android market.
in the right hand panel a listview is divided into the two rows. This is very useful because it saves lot of space and user can look at almost double items in the listview at a time. how can I implement this ? any suggestions?

you can use GridView instead of ListView of two columns..
1. GridView
2. GridViewExample
Sample design :

The Android Market also uses the ViewPager to scroll between the pages. Here is an example on how you could implement it.

There is another question that is related to this one.Check the folling link, it might help you:
How to display a two column ListView in Android?
Modify you *.xml file to get what you want.
Good luck!

If you want to do this using listView, then each item (row) in the list view should consist of two views. You can do this using a relative layout (or linear layout) with two items side by side.
You can also implement this using a gridview having two columns.

Android - How to structure a layout that has two dynamic texts and then a list

I am trying to create a screen where I get two items from SharedPreferences and display them to the screen, and then display a list via an adapter.
What I am not sure about is how to structure the layout xml file for this. Any suggestions how to do that?
Thanks!

You can have the main layout with a listview. Then you can have a sub layout for each row of your list. This row layout, let's call it row_layout.xml may have two text areas if your items are text or it may have a text area and a checkbox button if that's what you want. Basically, whatever you want to display in a single row of your list.
Read up a tutorial, here's one: http://www.vogella.de/articles/AndroidListView/article.html

Take a look # MergeAdapter, you can also create a view only listitem and add these item as header to the list

I am not sure what you mean. Are you asking for examples of layouts with two textviews that can be updated via sharedprefs, with a ListView in the activity? Or just suggestions? An easy way to get started would be to use the Eclipse Android plugin that has a layout designer in it. Here is a tutorial on how to use it http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-layout/ Its pretty easy and straight forward.

Image in a List view in Android

Hey all,
I know that this question has been asked many times in this forum itself. But I am not able to get a working solution out of any one of them.
My problem is that I need to create a list view with images. The content is static. Eg: Lets say i need to display 5 rows of data and I have 5 images to go with these rows. All i need to do is to display them in a list format!
Simple right??
Thanks in advance!

Hey nice to see somebody facing the same problem as I did.
Here is the very simple solution for that.
Make a ArrayList add your five elements in that named COUNTRIES.
create one list_item.xml file with one ImageView named imageview and one TextView named textview in a linear layout(This layout will repeat for your each row in ListView).
Dont forget to set image in ImageView to any defult icon or something.
in your class that extends ListActivity simply enter following line and you are done.
setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(getApplicationContext(),R.layout.list_item,R.id.textview,COUNTRIES));
In case you stuck anywhere you can ask.

You need to write a custom layout for the rows and pass it to the Adapter that defines the content of the list (you most probably want to write your own, but there may be some predefined ones).
See e.g. this TweetAdapter
that uses this layout
The left screenshot shows how this looks like.