how to add data from cursor to viewpager - android

is there a way to add data from cursor to viewpager, I have data in my cursor for example 4 items and I need to place each item on a page how can I do this using cursor and viewpager is it possible?
thanks.

Yes it is possible, you need a PagerAdapter, it will bind your PagerView with data and generate every "item" (every fragment or page) that shows up on the PagerView.
So first override a PagerAdapter, for example:
public class MyPagerAdapter extends PagerAdapter
Then you have to override the method that generates every item on the PagerAdapter, the instantiateItem() method. This method gives you an integer argument named position, it corresponds to the item number on the list of items that will show on your PagerView. Imagine a book, if every page is an item, the page number is the position.
So according to this position, every item will be different in a way that you must explain to the adapter through your code. To do this, you can use this position to access your list of data and create a correspondence between the list and the page.
Lets say you have a table Person with people names and you retrieve all entries, you create a List that holds all the names data from that cursor. You can now access your list using the item position, for example, list.get(position) and by retrieving the data from that particular list item you can create the individual page that you must return on instantiateItem. You can, for example inflate a layout, which contains a TextView called personName, then do something like personName.setText(list_name.get(position)). Now return the LayoutView. The Adapter will then create a view for every item on your List.
So you can do something like this:
ArrayList<String> names_list = new ArrayList<String>();
then store the cursor information on that List (You can do more than one list, and you can do it directly with a cursor using a CursorAdapter, this is just an example) and then instantiate your adapter:
MyPagerAdapter adapter = new MyPagerAdapter(context, layout, names_list);
For every item on the list, the adapter will run the instantiateItem method and create an item to populate a ViewPager, so now all you have to do is bind the Adapter with your ViewPager:
ViewPager pager = (ViewPager)findViewById(R.id.activity_search_viewpager);
pager.setAdapter(adapter);
This is just an example to kinda explain the idea of how a PagerAdapter works, there is a bit more to this subject than just this. Anyway, once you get confortable with the way things work, you can also check the CursorAdapter, so you can instantiate items directly from cursor data, no need for a list.
Here are some SDK references you should check:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/view/PagerAdapter.html
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/widget/CursorAdapter.html
Good luck :)

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-> which sets the filtered items in place of the items I sent to it in the constructor, and effectively overrids the activity items because they both point to the same objects in memory.
And I realized that by filtering in order to display a subset of results, I am overriding the acitivy's list of items, because it is shared by the activity and the RecyclerView
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I found the answer in the comments below the accepted answer here:
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How to show All list items in child ListView-using cwac-merge-1.0.4 jar

I am using two ListView in same screen,Because of using two Listviews likely Parent ListView and Child ListView,that Child ListView Adapter class doesn't show all List Values in Child ListView.It showed only 0 th(first) position in Child ListView,for this above issue I have used the answer code from this Android list view inside a scroll view link.now I can see all list values in my Child ListView but It is not showing all my List values in same time which I had grabbed from Web service call.It showed first value only in list because the List View height was set to list's single item height.If I scroll down the Child ListView I am able to see all values in ListView.What I need is If i get five list values from Web service It has to show all five items in same time.
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Edited
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This createAdapter method would return Adapter object and I have set that Adapter into my Listview using setAdapter(createAdapter(new ArrayList<T>()))
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Find Listview clicked section adapter in mergeadapter?

I am using merge adapter to merge two custom cursor adapters in android.I could not find clicked section to get data from my custom cursor adapter.How can I get adapter object when listview clicked?.
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if (parent.getAdapter().getItem(position) instanceof FeedMentionQuestionAdapter) {
LivLog.info(getClass(), "clicked on mention question section ");
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You need to hold onto your own adapter, or call getAdapter() on your ListView.
But it returns android.content.ContentResolver$CursorWrapperInner#41b9a638
Presumably, you put a CursorAdapter in the MergeAdapter.
Also, getItem() will never return an adapter. It returns items. If you are trying to determine the adapter that handles a particular position, call getAdapter().
How can I find which section is clicked in listview?
If you are referring to SectionIndexer, then sections are not clicked.

Setting tags to each item in a ListView in Android?

I have a ListView where I want each item to have an ID number attached to it (not the same as the position number). I was hoping this could be done by setting a tag to each View item in the ListView using setTag() when these Views are being created.
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Or is there a better way to link IDs with each string like this than adding tags like I'm trying to do?
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myAdapter.setViewBinder(new MyViewBinder());
public class MyViewBinder implements ViewBinder {
#Override
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((TextView)view).setTag("whatever you want");
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}
}
I just used this exact same answer on another question (albeit slightly different) yesterday.
about getView , it works by using a method of recycling views. i will try to explain it in a simple way.
suppose you have tons of items that can be viewed . you don't want to really create tons of views too , since that would take a lot of memory . google thought of it and provide you the means to update only the views that need to be shown at any specific time.
so , if there is an empty space on the listview , it will be filled with a new view . if the user scrolls , the view that becomes hidden is recycled and given back to you on the getView , to be updated with the data of the one that is shown instead .
for example , if you scroll down , the upper view becomes hidden for the end user , but in fact it becomes the exact same view that is on the bottom .
in order to understand how to make the listview have the best performance and see in practice how and why it works as i've talked about , watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDBM6wVEO70
as for tags , i think you want to do something else , since the data itself (usually some sort of collection, like an arrayList) already knows where to update , because you get the position via the getView . if you want a specific view to update , you might be able to do so by using a hashmap that keeps upadting , which its key is the position in the collection , and the value is the associated view . on each time you go to getView , you need to remove the entry that belong to the view (if exists) and assign the new position with the view that you got/created .
Thanks for the answers. thisMayhem's answer would probably have been easier in the end, but on my quest to learn more I ended up making my own adapter according to this tutorial. I pass down the names and the IDs into the adapter and set the names as the text of the TextViews and the IDs as the tags.
I would rather go with the solution discussed in this thread. It is always the easiest to have all related data in same place and in this case you just create a class to hold all the information you will need for every item.

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