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Using nested ListView or something else?

I have an layout like this:
I have almost 10 category to display, and each category have 10 books to display.
So it seems that I have to use the ListView for category with nested ListView for each book.
But I wonder if this will cause the measure problem? The inner book listivew does not need the scroll feature while the outer listview needs.
I have thought use the LinearLayout instead of ListView at all by adding each book and category dynamically , however I am not sure about the performance since the ListView can reuse some view, while LinearLayout cannot(or hard to).
Any suggestion?

Have you tried using ExpandableListView. Hope this helps..

You should not have problems, your inner ListView will not have limited height.
Consider using a ExpandableListView, the header will be the category and the childs the books. If you use this remember to override the method isChildSelectable to keep all the items expanded and remove the group indicator with setGroupIndicator(null).

Irregular Gridview, first row with one colum, rest id the rows with two columns

I'm trying to implement an irregular gridview for my Android app. I've defined the gridview to show 2 columns but I need to show just 1 column at the first row. Is it possible using a DataAdapter?

I don't think you can accomplish this with a gridview. The adapter simple provides the data, but the view decides how to lay it out. If your requirements allow you to make the number of columns constant, then maybe you can use the gridlayout instead. I'm thinking you could try to do you layout like the google currents app.
Gridview and ListView are super useful if you have 1000's of items since it reuses views as it scrolls. If you have lots a items in your grid, then I would probably try to use the GridView or ListView to accomplish your goal. Maybe you have to get your requirement changed. Another option is to use a ListView, but sub-divide each row into 2 columns.

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.

How to work with Multiple listviews and ViewFlipper (android)

In my application I have an activity which contains a viewflipper with 3 listviews inside. I have implemented the segmentedbutton widget to change between the listviews inside the viewflipper. Doing this way, I keep three listviews loaded in memory and display them according to the button selected.
Does android allow the developer to change the list adapter in runtime? I was thiking about removing the viewflipper and keep only one listview and when the user select one button, i only change the adapter from the listview.
Is this feseable? Wouldnt it be consuming more memory and cpu instead of having the three listviews inside the viewflipper?
Any answer that can help me is very appreciated.
Many thanks
T

You can certainly change the list adapter on a list at runtime, and this sounds like a much better alternative if what you are trying to accomplish is truly just changing the contents of the list.

To add to Micah's answer, you can also have 2 ListViews in your ViewFlipper in order to create a sliding effect when moving between the two lists.

Should I use multiple ListViews?

I have a RelativeLayout with different elements. I was planning to have two ListViews on it, but I have noticed there are some problems with scrolling. Since each ListView only shows a maximum of 5 rows should I try to make some kind of custom adapter to merge those ListViews? Or is it better to replace the ListView with a LinearLayout/RelativeLayout and add the rows as I get them manually? (like the first answer in here: android listview display all available items without scroll with static header ).
Which should be the proper way on doing this? or is there another way? Also, each row will have an OnClickListener.

There's two solutions if you'd like to keep your list... list-y, without having to prerender all the row Views like the above solution suggests (which can be slow to render, eats RAM and doesn't scale nicely to more than a screen or two of Views, but is a fine quick solution for smaller lists, though I'd just use a bunch of Views in a LinearLayout in a ScrollView rather than a ListView in that case).
Write a custom ListAdapter, overriding getItemViewType, getViewTypeCount and GetView to inflate the proper kind of view and recycle appropriately for your two types of views. You'll also either need to override getItem to contain custom logic for figuring out which set of source data to look in and to map the data accordingly, or mush the data down into one list of Objects (if you're using an arrayadapter) and cast in the getView method (probably a bit slower than handling it in the getItem without casting).
Just use cwac-merge, a view-and-adapter wrapping adapter. You can put two ListAdapters into a MergeAdapter and set that as your single ListView's adapter.

I had problems with scrolling. I never figured out how to have the ListView share vertical space with a different View, and have a single scrollbar for them both.
I worked around it by having everything that needs to scroll on the layout a row in the ListView.
Adding views as rows to a LinearLayout may have problems scaling up, but I think you'll be OK if you only have 10 rows in total. On 1st gen Android devices it'll probably start to get sluggish around 20 items (depends on Layout complexity obviously). ListView scales up by only inflating views as they come on screen.
So in answer to your question either of the two alternatives you suggest will be OK, but the LinearLayout option will be the easiest to code.