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How to modify a ListView item in Android?

I'm starting learning Android and I want to know if there is some option in Android that let you modify each item or view (I don't know how it's named exactly, I mean each of the items from an ArrayList that you show in a ListView).
Well, I made a ListView that is going to show some books that were located in an ArrayList named "books".
I made a custom adapter that I associate to the ListView to show each item with the corresponding layout in the application. I also have a class "book" for each item that is going to be shown in the ListView.
Further, I made an Intent that I call from MainActivity with startForActivityResult(), that I process in Book class and that I return to MainActivity with all data of a book with the method setResult and got the information with onActivityResult() and the requestCode.
So I don't have any problem to add items to the ListView, just I have the problems if I want to modify some of the items (or views) that are located in the ListView (for example if I have title and author of a book, if I put some wrong information, I want have the option to change it).
I have that, in the same moment that you click on some of the items of the ListView, a new layout will be show to modify the information that it's wrong so I use the method setOnItemClickListener with onItemClick event on the custom adapter that I created before. Here it's where I call the new Intent to modify the wrong information with the method startActivityForResult().
I made the same as before to add a new item but, instead of add a new item with custom_adapter.addBook(title,author) I want to know if there is some option to made something like this: custom_adapter.modify(title,author) or custom_adapter.update(title,author), I mean, when you have modify all the items that were wrong of a book (for example an EditText that were "title") and you have all the information in the MainActivity class (because you returned it with setResult), how to put it again in the same item updating it in the custom_adapter and also in the ArrayList.
I searched it on the Internet but I didn't find anything.
I'm sorry if I have a poor English, but I expect that it can be understand.
Thank you very much!

If I am understanding your problem correctly - you could simply modify the ArrayList of type Book that is backing your ArrayAdapter.
So if you know what Book object you want to modify then you can simply make your changes to the Book object itself. As long as this Book is a reference to the same object that you originally added to the ArrayList you instantiated your ArrayAdapter with then you can then call custom_adapter.notifyDataSetChanged() to tell the adapter to redraw its childviews with the new data.

There are some good code samples on the Internet but you have to understand the code for your purposes. So...here is a start, look at Using an ArrayAdapter with ListView. The code shows the use of ArrayAdapter with getView() method. And I hope it shows how to define the listeners, which you need.
How about that for a start? Have fun...

Thank you very much for all help you gave to me. I'm very pleased with you. :)
Finally, I just send the info with a Bundle when I started the Intent, also with the position. And after, I just used this position to set the new info to my items (in my case, books).
Again, thank you very much ;)

how to get the Default Listview Value in android?

In my application i have customListView ,i need to get the first value of list view(i.e. Zero position value) when very first time activity is loaded without using OnItemClickLiseners and it is focusable.How Can i do?,please can any one help me.
Thanking in Advance.

You can either use
listView.getChildAt(0)
or
listView.getChildAt(listView.getFirstVisiblePosition());

This is based on the assumption that you need to pull out values of the item that is at the first (0th) position in the ListView.
Since you are using a Custom ListView, you should also have a custom Adapter (possibly an ArrayAdapter or a BaseAdapter) that you use to show the data etc.
In any case, just check for this in the getView():
if (position == 0) {
// GET WHAT EVER DATA YOU NEED OUT OF THE ITEM.
}
If you can add more info to the OP about how you deal with the data, perhaps this answer can be made a little bit more useful. For example, do you use a POJO class to bind the data to the ListView?

Display GridView inside ExpandableListView for unknown groupCount in Android

I'm having a class (ExpandableListDataClass) which extends BaseExpandableListAdapter
I am calling to ExpandableListDataClass from an Activity like below;
ExpandableListDataClass expandableListDataClass = new ExpandableListDataClass(this, categories);
categoryExpandableListView.setAdapter(expandableListDataClass);
categories is a String array. That means groupCount of the ExpandableListDataClass is depend on the categories.
The worst thing is, I am loading a GridView for expanding of a group item in ExpandableListView. Those GridView have different data to show according to the category.
If I use following code inside getChildView(), it is perfectly working
if(getGroup(groupPosition).toString().equals("ebooks")){
expandableListInsideGridView.setAdapter(eBooksImageAdapterForExpandableList);
}else if(getGroup(groupPosition).toString().equals("ebrochures")){
expandableListInsideGridView.setAdapter(eBrochuresImageAdapterForExpandableList);
}
But what I want to remove from that is eBooksImageAdapterForExpandableList and eBrochuresImageAdapterForExpandableList. Because now what I am doing is creating ArrayList according to the existing categories.
But when I don't know how many categories/groupCount there are, I can't do that.
Please give me a solution

Finally I was able to find a solution :-)
I will explain it in backwards.
In the getChildView() I have to give following line of code
expandableListInsideGridView.setAdapter(new ImageAdapterForExpandableList(expandableListDataClassContext, eItemThumbCachePathArrayListContainer.get(groupPosition), eItemNamesArrayListContainer.get(groupPosition), eItemUrlArrayListContainer.get(groupPosition)));
getChildView() is in the ExpandableListDataClass which extends the BaseExpandableListAdapter.
What I had to do is declare an ArrayList which contains some other ArraLists of same type. If I explain it more with my code eItemThumbCachePathArrayListContainer is an ArrayList which contains ArrayLists of type String that I want to pass. That is the simple logic I have used and it works for me.

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.
Right now I'm creating the ListView like this:
final ListView listview = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listView1);
ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, android.R.id.text1, names);
listview.setAdapter(adapter);
The names variable in the ArrayAdapter parameters above is an ArrayList, and each string value in this list also has a unique ID that I want to link to this string somehow.
Is there any way I can get access to and modify each of the Views with a tag? One idea was to create my own extended class of ArrayAdapter and override the getView() method, but I don't really understand how it works and how I would go about doing this.
Or is there a better way to link IDs with each string like this than adding tags like I'm trying to do?

Create a ViewBinder and set the tags as the ListView is being populated with whatever you need. You can check all properties of the view to determine what tag goes where, so this should be what you're looking for.
myAdapter.setViewBinder(new MyViewBinder());
public class MyViewBinder implements ViewBinder {
#Override
public boolean setViewValue(View view, Object data, String text){
//Since it iterates through all the views of the item, change accordingly
if(view instanceof TextView){
((TextView)view).setTag("whatever you want");
}
}
}
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.

Passing information between views

I am new to android programming, but I am trying to learn. I have written some code that takes in some parameters through a "normal" view with checkboxes and textviews. Then I use this information to generate a lot of numbers that I want to display in a listview. I have managed to create a listview when I press a run button, but how do I pass the information from the main view to the listview. Is it best to pass the information one number at the time or a large array with all the numbers. The list of numbers can be really large.

What you probably what to do is create an adapter with the numbers as the data source. If the numbers are in an array you can create a new ArrayAdapter and set the ListView adapter as that adapter:
ArrayAdapter adapter = new ArrayAdapter<Double>(getApplicationContext(), R.id.id_of_textbox, arrayOfDoubles);
listView.setAdapter(adapter);
In this code I've assumed the numbers are doubles, however ArrayAdapter is a generic class so it can be any object contained in the array. The array can also be presented as a List (like an ArrayList).
Hope that helps you out. Here are some bit of documentation to read and some good video sessions to watch:
ArrayAdapter
ListView.setAdapter()
The World of ListView Google I/O 2010 Session

How big is the array can get?
Most likely that displaying the list as another activity and passing the data as intent's extra will be the solution.