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Get the text of TextView of Item of ListView

I want to get the text of a TextView that is in a ListView's item.
See the code and you will find what's my question.
Activity.java:
SimpleAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(
rootView.getContext(),
result,
R.layout.article_list_item,
new String[]{"article_title", "article_PubDate", "article_category", "article_articleNo"},
new int[]{R.id.article_title, R.id.article_PubDate, R.id.article_category, R.id.article_articleNo});
ListView articleItem.setAdapter(adapter);
articleItem.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
#Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
//I want get the text of R.id.article_articleNo(see article_list_item.xml)?
//What should I do?
}
});
article_list_item.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:id="#+id/article">
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="文章标题"
android:id="#+id/article_title"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" />
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="30-Apr-2014"
android:id="#+id/article_PubDate"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="personal_finance"
android:id="#+id/article_category"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="9312"
android:id="#+id/article_articleNo"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"/>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
That's all!!
I want to get the text of R.id.article_article (see article_list_item.xml).
How can I do it?

Does this work for you?
articleItem.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
#Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
String text = result.get(position).get("article_articleNo");
//^^ does not necessarily need to be a string,
// make this whatever data type you are storing in the map
}
});
The idea is that in your SimpleAdapter, you are populating your ListView with a List<Map<String,Object>> (in this case named result).
Therefore, you can get that specific Map<String,Object> from the List by using .get(position), then once again using .get("article_articleNo") to get the Object from the map.
Edit after seeing your comment: Try this:
articleItem.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
#Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
TextView tv = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.article_articleNo);
String text = tv.getText().toString();
}
});

First of all, forget about the xml layout. It's just a placeholder for data, which is used to define the layout of the data, and has got nothing to do with storing the data.
Now, your problem statement can be re-stated as: how to fetch data from an array (or list or arraylist or whatever the format of your result is) on clicking list item.
Hmm. Sounds simple now.
Refer to #RougeBaneling's answer for technical details.

check multiple items in list view

I use an adapter to load a list view from a content provider. Each item in the list uses the below layout.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<LinearLayout
android:id ="#+id/wrapper"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<CheckedTextView
android:id="#+id/txt_chat"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:checkMark="?android:attr/listChoiceIndicatorMultiple"
/>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
I have set the list item to allow multiple choice mode :
onCreate(){
...
lv_chatMessages = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listview_chat);
lv_chatMessages.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE);
lv_chatMessages.setItemsCanFocus(false);
...
}
But at run time, i am not able to check any of the items in the list view. If i touch the box, the item just gets highlighted momentarily, but no check mark appears.
I can set a default for all the items if i add an attribute to the CheckedTextView :
android:checked="true"
How do i let the user change the check status of each item at runtime?

refer this link...
CheckedTextView
this may help you..
[Edit by Faizal] :
Using the toggle() inside the onItemClickListener did the trick :
lv_chatMessages.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
#Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3){
CheckedTextView ctv = (CheckedTextView) (((ViewGroup) arg1).findViewById(R.id.txt_chat));
ctv.toggle();
}
});

can you add this into list items
android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants"
android:focusableInTouchMode="false"

Since, you are using a custom adapter, you'll have to maintain the status of the checkbox in the getView() method of the custom adapter.
What you could probably do is to add another Boolean field to your ArrayList of Objects which you use to populate the adapter and check that value in the getView() method. to Something like :
if(status) {
checkBox.setChecked(true);
}
Also, update the status variable using OnCheckedChangeListener().
This method will let you toggle status and also ensure that the checkbox status is maintained even when a list item goes out of the view.
Edit 1 : When not using a custom adapter. This is how I did it.
ListView rendererList;
ArrayList<String> friendlyNames;
friendlyNames = new ArrayList<String>();
rendererList = (ListView) dialog.findViewById(R.id.rendererList);
ArrayAdapter rendererSelectionAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(activity,R.layout.custom_list_layout, friendlyNames);
rendererList.setAdapter(rendererSelectionAdapter);
rendererList.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE);
custom_list_layout was the same layout which android provides, however, I had to make slight modifications so I copied the default file and edited.
here is the custom_list_layout :
<CheckedTextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#android:id/text1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeightSmall"
android:background="#color/white"
android:checkMark="?android:attr/listChoiceIndicatorSingle"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:paddingEnd="?android:attr/listPreferredItemPaddingEnd"
android:paddingStart="?android:attr/listPreferredItemPaddingStart"
android:textSize="#dimen/dialog_box_button_textsize" />

Textview onClick is being called instead of the Listview onItemClick.

OK I've searched and seen similar issues, tried them and no avail. I have a listView with some elements and I want to click on one element and display a detail somewhere else.
This is my listView
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_pedidos);
ListView listView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.actualStoresList);
Model.initialize();
Vector<String> values = Model.stores;
listView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
#Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapter, View view, int position,
long id) {
Object o = adapter.getItemAtPosition(position);
String str_text = o.toString();
Log.i("", "I have selected this: " + str_text);
}
});
CustomStringAdapter adapter = new CustomStringAdapter(this, R.layout.my_list_layout, R.id.list_content, values);
listView.setAdapter(adapter);
}
This is the my_list_layout.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/list_content"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_margin="4dip"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="20dp"/>
</LinearLayout>
The list gets displayed correctly. When I click on an element of the list (A textView) it "steals" the click event so nothing happens (the onItemClickListener is attached to the listView, not the TextView).
The textView has an small margin where, if careful, I can click just behind it, in fact, touching the listView. In this case, the event gets fired ok and I see the log.
I've tried to set the TextView android:focusable="false" but still, the TextView is "above" of the listView and always gets the click events.
How can I either make the TextView "transparent" so it actually clicks on the listView, or add a onclickListener to the TextView so I can handle its events?
Thanks!
Alejandro

Setting clickable property of TextView to false should solve this problem. Try this:
<TextView
android:id="#+id/list_content"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:gravity="center"
android:layout_margin="4dip"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="20dp"
android:clickable="false" />

To make items not focusable, do this:
listView.setItemsCanFocus(false);
source
I think this will solve your issue.

Also make sure the
android:textIsSelectable
property is not set to true.

Display contents from ListView defined in regular Activity Android

I wanted to create a search view like the one Google uses. For this I created the following XML layout, which basically is a search bar and a button in the upper section of the screen and a ListView at the bottom of it.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/LinearLayoutSearch"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:background="#FF394952">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true" >
<EditText android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="#+id/searchTextBar" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1">
<requestFocus></requestFocus>
</EditText>
<Button android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:id="#+id/searchButton" android:text="Buscar"></Button>
</LinearLayout>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/searchResultList"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_weight="1.0" />
</LinearLayout>
And this is the code of the textViewResource that the ArrayAdapter demands on its constructor:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
</TextView>
Now, this is the code of the activity. So far, I just want to display the view with the contents (that's why I'm using a static String array for now).
public class SearchActivity extends Activity{
static final String[] COUNTRIES = new String[] {
"Afghanistan", "Albania", "Algeria"};
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.searchview);
ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,R.layout.list_item, COUNTRIES);
ListView lv = (ListView)this.findViewById(R.id.searchResultList);
lv.setAdapter(adapter);
lv.setTextFilterEnabled(true);
lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
int position, long id) {
// When clicked, show a toast with the TextView text
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), ((TextView) view).getText(),
Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
});
}
}
However, when I run the activity I see the search bar but it doesn't display the ListView.
I've tried changing the extension of SearchActivity to ListActivity, but the program just crashes when I try to start it. I'm also aware of the existence of the Search Interface, but I just want to see this particular method work.
Why it doesn't display the contents of the ListView? Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks in advance

If you are going to use ListActivity you should be aware that ListActivity already has a ListView instance. You need to call its setListAdapter method to set the adapter for its ListView instead of instantiating your own ListView and setting the adapter on it. You can call getListView to get a handle on ListActvity's ListView and then set the click listener on that.

If you want to extend ListActivity then you must have a ListView with id #android:id/list. Change the id of your ListView, that should fix the crash when extending ListActivity.

onItemClickListener not firing on custom ArrayAdapter

I have an Activity that retrieves data from a web service. This data is presented in a ListView via an ArrayAdapter which inflates a RelativeLayout with three TextViews inside, nothing fancy and it work fine.
Now I want to implement a Details Activity that should be called when a user clicks an item in the ListView, sounds easy but I can't for the life of me get the onItemClickListener to work on my ArrayAdapter.
This is my main Activity:
public class Schema extends Activity {
private ArrayList<Lesson> lessons = new ArrayList<Lesson>();
private static final String TAG = "Schema";
ListView lstLessons;
Integer lessonId;
// called when the activity is first created.
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// can we use the custom titlebar?
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);
// set the view
setContentView(R.layout.main);
// set the title
getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, R.layout.titlebar);
// listview called lstLessons
lstLessons = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.lstLessons);
// load the schema
new loadSchema().execute();
// set the click listeners
lstLessons.setOnItemClickListener(selectLesson);
}// onCreate
// declare an OnItemClickListener for the AdapterArray (this doesn't work)
private OnItemClickListener selectLesson = new OnItemClickListener() {
#Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View v, int i, long l) {
Log.v(TAG, "onItemClick fired!");
}
};
private class loadSchema extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
private ProgressDialog progressDialog;
// ui calling possible
protected void onPreExecute() {
progressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(Schema.this,"", "Please wait...", true);
}
// no ui from this one
#Override
protected Void doInBackground(Void... arg0) {
// get some JSON, this works fine
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
progressDialog.dismiss();
// apply to list adapter
lstLessons.setAdapter(new LessonListAdapter(Schema.this, R.layout.list_item, lessons));
}
My ArrayAdapter code:
// custom ArrayAdapter for Lessons
private class LessonListAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Lesson> {
private ArrayList<Lesson> lessons;
public LessonListAdapter(Context context, int textViewResourceId, ArrayList<Lesson> items) {
super(context, textViewResourceId, items);
this.lessons = items;
}
#Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
View v = convertView;
if (v == null) {
LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
v = vi.inflate(R.layout.list_item, null);
}
Lesson o = lessons.get(position);
TextView tt = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.titletext);
TextView bt = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.timestarttext);
TextView rt = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.roomtext);
v.setClickable(true);
v.setFocusable(true);
tt.setText(o.title);
bt.setText(o.fmt_time_start);
rt.setText(o.room);
return v;
}
}// LessonListAdapter
The main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout android:id="#+id/main"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
>
<!-- student name -->
<TextView
android:id="#+id/schema_view_student"
android:text="Name" android:padding="4dip"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
style="#style/schema_view_student"
/>
<!-- date for schema -->
<TextView
android:id="#+id/schema_view_title"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="0dip"
style="#style/schema_view_day"
android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
android:layout_below="#+id/schema_view_student"
android:text="Date" android:padding="6dip"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
/>
<!-- horizontal line -->
<View
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="1dip"
android:background="#55000000"
android:layout_below="#+id/schema_view_title"
/>
<!-- list of lessons -->
<ListView
android:id="#+id/lstLessons"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_below="#+id/schema_view_title"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
The list_item.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="60px"
android:padding="12dip">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/timestarttext"
android:text="09:45"
style="#style/LessonTimeStartText"
android:layout_width="60dip"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:gravity="center_vertical|right" android:paddingRight="6dip"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/titletext"
android:text="Test"
style="#style/LessonTitleText"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/timestarttext"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/roomtext"
android:text="123"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
style="#style/LessonRoomText"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:gravity="center_vertical" />
</RelativeLayout>
Been messing with this for the last couple of hours and I can't seem to get my head around what the problem is. My problem looks very similar to this question, but I'm not extending ListActivity, so I still don't know where my onListClickItem() should go.
UPDATE: Now I've puzzled with this for several days and still can't find the issue.
Should I rewrite the activity, this time extending ListActivity instead of Activity? Because it provides the onItemClick method itself and is probably easier to overwrite.
Or, should I bind a listener directly in each getView() in my ArrayAdapter? I believe I have read this is bad practice (I should do as I tried and failed in my post).

Found the bug - it seems to be this issue. Adding android:focusable="false" to each of the list_item.xml elements solved the issue, and the onclick is now triggered with the original code.

I've encountered the same issue and tried your fix but couldn't get it to work. What worked for me was adding android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants" to the <RelativeLayout> from the item layout xml, list_item.xml in your case. This allows onItemClick() to be called.

What worked for me :
1) Adding android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants" to Relative Layout tag.
The result is shown below :
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants" >
2) Adding android:focusable="false" to every element in in list_item.xml
example :
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TextView"
android:focusable="false" />

Once I had a similar problem. Every list item had a text view and a checkbox, and just because the checkbox, the whole listitem wasn't 'enabled' to fire the event. I solved it by making a little trick inside the adapter when I was getting the view.
Just before returning the view I put:
v.setOnClickListener(listener);
(The object listener is an onItemClickListener I gave to the Adapter's constructor).
But I have to tell you, the problem is because the platform, it is a bug.

I had the same problem and I tried to solve it by adding
android:focusableInTouchMode="false"
android:clickable="false"
android:focusable="false"
to my item.xml but it still doesn't work !!! Infact I found the issue in the relative layout witch contains
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" android:focusable="true"
And when I removed it All things is ok

protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
progressDialog.dismiss(); stLessons.setAdapter(new LessonListAdapter(Schema.this, R.layout.list_item, lessons));
//add this
ListView lv = getListView(); lv.setOnItemClickListener(new ListView.OnItemClickListener() {
#Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> a, View v, int i, long l) {
//do stuff
}
});
}