android listview updates only sometimes - android

I have a listview in my android program that gets its information from an ArrayList adapter.
I have three methods that call listview.invalidateViews().
Two of these methods work without fail, and the third seems to freeze the listview. The information is correctly saved when backing out of the activity and on a screen rotate. But without taking these actions, the listview does not update.
Any Ideas?
UPDATE:
These instances work:
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> a, View v, int index, long id) {
al.remove(index);
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}
public void addToList(View view) {
EditText et = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.ListText1);
if (et.getText().toString().equals("")) {
//do nothing
}
else {
al.add(et.getText().toString());
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
et.setText(null);
}
}
This method does not work:
public void resetList(View view) {
al = new ArrayList<String>();
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

you are using invalidateViews() differently, if you want to change the view of the listview's child then you can use the invalidateViews() but if you are changing the data/content of the listview's adapter you need to use notifyDataSetChanged() method.
the difference of the two are discussed in this question
ListView.invalidateViews()
is used to tell the ListView to invalidate all its child item views (redraw them). Note that there not need to be an equal number of views than items. That's because a ListView recycles its item views and moves them around the screen in a smart way while you scroll.
Adapter.notifyDataSetChanged()
on the other hand, is to tell the observer of the adapter that the contents of what is being adapted have changed. Notifying the dataset changed will cause the listview to invoke your adapters methods again to adjust scrollbars, regenerate item views, etc...
and with your method
public void resetList(View view) {
al = new ArrayList<String>();
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}
making a new object of ArrayList<String>(); will not reset the data of your list view. just because the al ArrayList that you passed on your adapter is now different to your al = new ArrayList<String>(); what you need to do now is to access your current arraylist then clearing its content with al.clear() method.

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How to have a checkbox inside of a listview, to have a listener outside adapter activity?

So, I have menu items being displayed in listview, along with checkboxes, for the user to select which he likes. And I have an overhead cart icon which keeps track of no of checked items, by a function that is written in the adapter view.
My problem:
When I have implemented the cart increment function inside of OnItemClick listener, and then when I check a few items, it doesn't get updated unless I make a click outside of checkbox (anywhere else in the listview).
I have tried disabling descendant focusability and modifying focusability as per other SO answers. They haven't solved my issue.
My calling activity
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You have that in getView(). So for every call of getView() you throw away the former.
In getView() you use checkBoxState[position] which then of course is undefined or null.
So take it out and put it in the constructor of your adapter and initialise it as you do with that int array.
By the way: why did not you tell that your checkboxes did not hold state during scrolling?

Click on last item in AdapterView in Espresso

I'm working on a note taking app. I add a note, and it get's added to the bottom of the list. As the last assertion in the espresso test, I want to make sure that the ListView displays a listItem that has just been added. This would mean grabbing the last item in the listView. I guess you might be able to do it in other ways? (e.g. get the size of adapted data, and go to THAT position? maybe?), but the last position of the list seems easy, but I haven't been able to do it. Any ideas?
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final int[] numberOfAdapterItems = new int[1];
onView(withId(R.id.some_list_view)).check(matches(new TypeSafeMatcher<View>() {
#Override
public boolean matchesSafely(View view) {
ListView listView = (ListView) view;
//here we assume the adapter has been fully loaded already
numberOfAdapterItems[0] = listView.getAdapter().getCount();
return true;
}
#Override
public void describeTo(Description description) {
}
}));
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How to refresh two listview at one moment in Android?

I have two listview, like listview_1 and listview_2. I wanna refresh the listview_2 while listview_1 is refreshed.
My code like this:
public void updateTwoListView() {
listview_1.getAdapter().notifyDataSetChanged();
listview_2.getAdapter().notifyDataSetChanged();
}
But it don't work, listview_1 can refresh but the listview_2 can't.
And at that moment what I found is that listview_1 was on focus.
And then I tried to set focus to other views before ran the method, both of them didn't refresh. It likes to refresh a listview only if the listview has focus.
What's more I found that when I called the method to refresh, listview_2 didn't, and then I set focus to listview_2, refreshed itself!
So, What all I want to ask is:
How to refresh two listview at one moment in Android?
What's more code:
//init two listview there
public void init() {
listview_1 = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.listView1);
listview_2 = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.listView2);
adapter1 = new MyListViewAdapter(mContext);
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listview_1.setAdapter(adapter1);
listView_2.setAdapter(adapter2);
}
the real code of upside snippet is:
public void updateTwoListView(int currentPosition) {
adapter1.updateCurPos(currentPosition);
adapter2.updateCurPos(currentPosition);
}
and in MyListViewAdapter.java:
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And I will call method like listViewManager.updateTwoListView(1) outside to refresh.
Any reply is appreciated.
You have called listview_1 twice. Just change one of them to listview_2 as below:
public void updateTwoListView() {
listview_1.getAdapter().notifyDataSetChanged();
listview_2.getAdapter().notifyDataSetChanged();
}
It seems the problem of your code is that you call getAdapter().
Sets the data behind this ListView. The adapter passed to this method may be wrapped by a WrapperListAdapter, depending on the ListView features currently in use. For instance, adding headers and/or footers will cause the adapter to be wrapped.
Source: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ListView.html#setAdapter(android.widget.ListAdapter)
The solution is save your Adapter as member variable in your activity and call the notifyDataSetChanged()from there.
See more on this question's answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31893525/2742759

ListView does not show changes until focus changes after notifyDataSetChanged

I have an AlertDialog with a ListView set to multiple selection on it. It also has a Button on it.
The Button open another AlertDialog that if ok'ed will remove the selected items from the data set of the ListView, and then tell the adapter of the list view that the dataset has changed with the notifyDataSetChanged() method.
This all works fine except for one thing. The ListView does not update it's content until I interact with something. Then it updates to the correct data.
This is not a big problem, but I really would like the ListView to appear correct at once, and not just after the focus has changed.
Code:
Button remove = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.btn_remove_questions_edit_rack);
final Context con = this;
remove.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener()
{
#Override
public void onClick(View v)
{
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warnBuild.setMessage(R.string.question_deletion_warning);
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{
#Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which)
{
SparseBooleanArray checked = list.getCheckedItemPositions();
for (String s : keys)
{
int i = keys.indexOf(s);
if (checked.get(i))
{
toRemove.add(map.get(s));
map.remove(s);
}
}
keys.clear();
keys.addAll(map.keySet());
((ArrayAdapter) list.getAdapter()).notifyDataSetChanged();
list.clearChoices(); //This makes sure the selection is cleared, if it isn't, some of the other items (those that now has the index of the selected items) will be selected when the View refreshes.
dialog.dismiss();
}
});
//Negative button here, not relevant.
}
});
Where map and keys are:
final HashMap<String, QualityQuestion> map = new HashMap<>();
//I add items to the map
final ArrayList<String> keys = new ArrayList<>(map.keySet());
And toRemove is where I store the items to be removed from the actual object they are on when the ok button on the original AlertDialog is pressed.
This is how I populate my ListView in the first place:
final ListView list = (ListView) view.findViewById(R.id.list_questions_edit_rack);
list.setAdapter(
new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
android.R.layout.simple_list_item_activated_1,
keys));
I have tried things like list.invalidateViews(), list.invalidate and other things I found in questions similar to mine here on SO. But none of that made any difference. I suspect my problem to be different from theirs since my items clearly are updated, it just takes a change of focus on the original AlertDialog for the change to be visible.
How can I make the ListView show the changes in it's data source imidiatly insted of after a focus change?
By calling
((ArrayAdapter) list.getAdapter()).notifyDataSetChanged();
you get a fresh adapter which is almost certainly not identical to the anonymous adapter you used to populate your list in the first instance.
See also the documentation for ListView.getAdapter()
Returns the adapter currently in use in this ListView.
The returned adapter might not be the same adapter passed to setAdapter(ListAdapter) but might be a WrapperListAdapter.
From the point of view of this fresh adapter, the data set hasn't changed because the changes happened way before it was instantiated.
To solve your problem, make your list and your list adapter members of your activity class (or the scope where you want to keep them alive):
private ArrayList<String> keys;
private ArrayAdapter myAdapter;
private ListView list;
Then in your "onCreate()"
keys = ...; // initialization of ArrayList with the needed data
myAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
android.R.layout.simple_list_item_activated_1,
keys);
list = (ListView) view.findViewById(R.id.list_questions_edit_rack);
list.setAdapter(myAdapter);
This way, in your "OnClickListener" you can notify "myAdapter":
keys.addAll(map.keySet());
myAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
Hope this helps :)
You can tweak it, by granting focus to another view, and then requesting it back:
view.requestFocus();
You can also use:
view.requestFocusFromTouch();

Swap two elements in ArrayList inside custom adapter to show in Listview

I have a Listview and a custom adapter, I am trying to change swap two arraylist items inside the apdapter in onclick of button as listview item.
My code is
viewHolder.btnUp.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
Integer pos = (Integer) v.getTag();
if (!pojos.get(pos).equals(pojos.get(0))) {
Collections.swap(pojos, pos, pos - 1);
notifyDataSetChanged();
}
}
});
But I can not see the changes in listview, though arraylist has modified, but UI changes has not reflected.
Thats because your adapter has already finished its work. The adapter will turn the data into views and pass those views to the list view. Notice that changing the order in the original collection wont change the views inside the list view. What you could do is remove the views and add them at the correct positions. Get access to the list view by doing viewHolder.getParent()
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I would recommend to pass the arrayList to the adapter again and setting adapter to the list view, all this before the notifyDataSetChanged(); method.

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