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How to get the view in a custom list view at a specific position? Android?

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.

How to create search on multi choice ListView?

I have created search on listview,but row selection get effected while search,I assume selection is maintained based on index.Can any one explain best way to solve this problem.

you may set different custom id or setTag to listview elements after clickListener you can get that custom id or tag so you can check which item is clicked.
View v;
v.setId();
v.setTag();

How to create spinner with heading in it?

I am just thinking to create like below in spinner, but i am not sure how to make it work
Fruits (heading unclickable)
Apple
Mango
Orange
Cars (heading unclickable)
BMW
Lenova
Is that possible in Spinner or if you know any other method to create like this, then it would be great.
I am getting those details from the local database. Heading from one table and records from one table.
I am looking for any example or solution.
Thanks for your help guys.

After long time i found a way to do this. I achieved by combining a Button and Expandable ListView. What i have done is i created a button like spinner. OnClick I launched a popup Activity with Expandable list view in it by calling startActivityForResult() which returns the selected value. Finally i replaced the button text with the selected value.
If you looking for Expandable ListView Tutorial you can click below link.
(http://androidtrainningcenter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/android-expandable-listview-simple.html).

Take a look at the Spinner example in the Hello Views tutorial. They accomplish this by using a TextView for the heading, and the spinner for the selectable list of options.

Android:initiate the listView items

I have a listview and take TextView as the list-item,now I need the first item's state to be selected when the listview has been initiated. In other words , i have give the TextView a selector drawable , so i want the item to be selected when it first shows in the list.
I wonder if i have made it clear.
Hope your help coming soon.
Thanks first!
PS: I add the list items by my own adapter extending from SimpleAdapter.

Either setSelection or singleChoiceList is your answer.

How do I animate ListView item hights?

I have a simple ListView in my application. What I want to do on a row select is to expand it and show additional details in there and then if some other is selected then collapse the previous one and expand the new one.
I can modify the contents list item row in onListItemClick() method. However how do I animate the change in height of the list item row.
Is there a better way to do it? Or is there a better component still? I don't want to use the expandable list as it's not a group of child lists, instead just expanding the contents with more details.
Any help is much appreciated.
Cheers

Have a look at Lazylist below this.
http://open-pim.com/tmp/LazyList.zip
i think this example is great for build your custom ListView