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convertView loses onitemClick after the listView is scrolled

I'm having a slightly weird error here on my adapter.
The view the adapter is creating is a thumbnail on the left side and a table with a few rows. Each row have two textviews.
One of the textviews have the android:autoLink="web" property set and the listview have an onItemClickListener on it.
the problem is that every time a TextView auto-links it's content, next time its parent view is converted, it doesn't receive clicks from the onItemClickListener anymore.
Let me clarify with an example:
view1, view2, view3 and view4 are on the list view on the screen.
view2 have a link and it appears, and onClick the link opens.
the item click works normally for view1, view 3 and view4.
scroll the listview and view1 is converted to position5 and then view2 is converted to position6.
the item at position6 does not contain a link, but the onItemClick is also not fired for the position6 element.
the autolink feature of the textview is certainly changing something with my layout, but I don't know what. There must a property I can reset for every call to getView on my adapter, but which?
thanks for any help.
edit
let's see some code, it's pretty standard/good practices.
the getView from my adapter is:
#Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
// Inflate a new layout if needed
if (convertView == null)
convertView = createNewView();
// Gets the item from my array
AGplus item = (AGplus) getItem(position);
// Gets the holder pointing to the views
Holder h = (Holder) convertView.getTag();
// That's a test version, I won't be using date.toString() later on
h.date.setText(new Date(item.getDate()).toString());
// This guys is giving me a headache,
// If it parses the link, I can't never click on this convertView anymore,
// event re-converting them for a text that does not contain links
h.txt.setText(item.getTitle());
// some image download stuff that doesn't matter for this code
return convertView;
}
that layouts used is a image and table and the amount of rows I inflate and insert on the table varies for each adapter. The table layout is a horizontal linear layout with a imageview and the table layout with some margin stuff and here is the row layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TableRow xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
android:textColor="#color/text" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:autoLink="web"
android:text=""
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
android:textColor="#color/text" />
</TableRow>
if I completely remove the android:autoLink="web" I get all the clicks, but as stated before, once a view gets "auto-linked" and then I recycle that view, I can't get clicks on that view again.
edit
and here is the layout inflation:
private View createNewView() {
// Instantiate view
View v = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.expandable_child_view, null);
TableLayout table = (TableLayout) v.findViewById(R.id.table);
Holder h = new Holder();
v.setTag(h);
// Instantiate rows
h.thumb = (ImageView) v.findViewById(R.id.img);
h.date = (TextView) createNewRow(table, "Date: ");
h.txt = (TextView) createNewRow(table, "Text: ");
return v;
}
private View createNewRow(ViewGroup group, String title) {
View row;
row = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.item_table_row, null);
((TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.title)).setText(title);
group.addView(row);
return row.findViewById(R.id.text);
}
and before someone else asks, that's the expandable_child_view layout:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/frame"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center_vertical" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/img"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="40dp"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:src="#drawable/ic_launcher" />
<TableLayout
android:id="#+id/table"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
</TableLayout>
</LinearLayout>
as I said before, just a linear layout with a imageview and a table and a few margins.

According to Romain Guy here, this is done by design to support trackball/dpad navigation. Comment 27 has a workaround to it, by setting descendant focusability on each listview item:
setDescendantFocusability(FOCUS_BLOCK_DESCENDANTS);
or
android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants"

I think I know what may be going on. When you do setText(), sometimes it'll wipe out a lot of stuff. You may have to use a ClickableSpan to put the link action back into the textview.

Android, custom views don't fill the screen in a Gallery

I want to display a custom view, composed of a TextView above an ImageView in a vertical LinearLayout, one at a time in a Gallery.
The problem is that my custom view does not fill the screen. I can see a part of the other views on the sides and I don't want this issue.
Here is the xml of my custom view : gallery_item.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/gallery_item_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/gallery_item_cardname"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center"
android:textSize="20dp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:text="#string/contrebandiers_lvl1"
android:textColor="#android:color/darker_gray"
/>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/gallery_item_cardimg"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:scaleType="centerInside"
android:contentDescription="#string/app_name"
android:src="#drawable/contrebandiers_lvl1"
/>
</LinearLayout>
Here is the code of the method getVew of my adapter : GTRoundDeckAdapter
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
{
GalleryItem galleryItem;
if(convertView == null)
{
galleryItem = new GalleryItem();
convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.gallery_item, null);
galleryItem.cardName = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.gallery_item_cardname);
galleryItem.cardImg = (ImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.gallery_item_cardimg);
convertView.setTag(galleryItem);
}
else
{
galleryItem = (GalleryItem) convertView.getTag();
}
GTCard gtCard = (GTCard) mRoundDeck.get(position);
galleryItem.cardName.setText(gtCard.getNameId());
galleryItem.cardImg.setImageResource(gtCard.getImgId());
return convertView;
}
I thank you for your help.
Samuel

I would recommend that you use the ViewPager instead of Gallery. In my personal experience, I have found Gallery to slightly buggy. If your requirement is to show only one View at a time, then ViewPager (which lets you swipe left and right to go one by one) should suit your needs.
You will need to include the Android Support package to use ViewPager.
Link to support package: http://developer.android.com/sdk/compatibility-library.html
Link on how to use ViewPager: http://blog.stylingandroid.com/archives/537

you should use both the width of textview and imageview fillparent.then it will be fill the screen of the gallery...

Add a new item to a listview

I am not quite sure my question really has something to do with listview.There is an app named Gleeo Time Tracker ,and here has a screenview of it.When you press the symbol "+",a new item will be created,and you can delete one item by pressing the "-".More is that when I click the record button on the left of the item,the background will change.
My question is,what is it in the end,a listview? How can I achieve such thing?Thank you all!

What you want to do, is build a custom ListView.
This is done by providing a layout file, for example
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#android:color/transparent">
<ImageView android:id="#+id/Plus"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#android:color/transparent" />
<TextView android:id="#+id/Title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#android:color/transparent" />
</LinearLayout>
This layout is then applied to each row of your ListView by overriding its Adapter's getView() method, for example something like this:
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
View v = convertView;
if (v == null) {
LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater) MyActivity.this.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
v = vi.inflate(R.layout.row, null);
}
ImageView plus = (ImageView) v.findViewById(R.id.plus);
icon.setImageDrawable(BrowseActivity.this.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.plus));
TextView title = (TextView) v.findViewById (R.id.Browse_FileName);
// add a listener to your button and you're done
return v;
}

read about list view in developer docs and here is an example

Android EditText sizing in a GridView

I have two GridViews layed out side by side.
The first GridView contains variable objects, in this case some EditTexts, depending on the game mode.
The second GridView contains TextViews that label the rows.
Because I use the first GridView for many different things, I have been creating the EditText objects programmatically. However, I am having a hard time getting their size to match up with the EditText row markers.
1) Should I be constructing my EditText objects in xml (and if so, where would I put it, and what properties would I have to set) ?
2) If programmatically creating the EditTexts is ok, how can I resize them through code to line up with the row numbers?
After loading the GridView's objects from the layout recommended below, I am given a ClassCastException complaining about LayoutParams:
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
EditText textbox;
View MyView = convertView;
if (convertView == null) {
LayoutInflater li = getLayoutInflater();
MyView = li.inflate(R.layout.edittextfull, null);
textbox = (EditText) MyView.findViewById(R.id.textbox);
}
else
textbox = (EditText) convertView;
return textbox;
}

Here is your row
<LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<EditText android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_weight="1"
/>
<TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:text="row 1"
/>
</LinearLayout>
to use xml is always better . so avoid creating view pragmatically until its the only way .

Android: alternate background color in a TableLayout inside a ListView

I'm trying to display a set of data in a Grid style, using a TableLayout inside a ListView. What I want is to display each row with a different color (two colors alternatively). It works well when using a normal LinearLayout in the ListView, but for whatever reason when using a TableLayout I end up having all rows having the same background, which I think is the last one set.
For this, I am using a BaseAdapter, and in the getView function I have something like:
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
ViewHolder holder;
if (convertView == null) {
convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.list, parent, false);
holder = new ViewHolder();
holder.from = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.from);
holder.to = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.to);
convertView.setTag(holder);
} else {
holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
}
if(position%2==0) {
convertView.setBackgroundColor(R.color.cell_background);
}
//alternate background
else {
convertView.setBackgroundColor(R.color.cell_background_alternate);
}
// Bind the data efficiently with the holder.
holder.from.setText(list.get(position)[0]);
holder.to.setText(list.get(position)[1]);
return convertView;
}
Now in my main.xml for the activity, I just have a ListView. In the list.xml used to inflate the list, I have:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TableRow
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView android:id="#+id/from"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="left"
android:layout_weight="1"/>
<TextView android:id="#+id/to"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="left"
android:layout_weight="1"/>
</TableRow>
</TableLayout>
Also, another problem is that the columns are not aligned: it just takes as much space as it needs for every row, every columns, when a TableLayout should align all columns. The only workaround that I came up with was to set a minimal width for the columns, but that's not pretty. Any reason why it does not work here?
Edit 21/06:
As you can see on the picture, the columns are not aligned (row 2 and 3 are but it's obviously because they have the same data inside).

try replacing
convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.list, parent, false);
with
convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.list, null);
and for table cell aligning issue can you give an example snapshot bcos I did not get what u trying to accomplish.

I have also faced same problem of alignment of table header and table row having data but after lot of efforts i found the only way to get rid of this problem is to give fix size to all the columns