Android ListActivity Clicks - android

I have a ListActivity as my main activity. I want to be able to do a few things on a single item in the list i.e.
Longpress to bring up a contextmenu for that item
Swipe left to right to slide a new screen from the right to edit the list item.
Does anyone have any code they can show me that does this?

Longpress to bring up a contextmenu for that item
See here for how to use context menus. Here is a sample project that demonstrates their use.
Swipe left to right to slide a new screen from the right to edit the list item.
See here for how to use gesture libraries. Here is a ViewSwiper that adds gestures to a ViewFlipper. Here is an implementation of a drag-and-drop ListView, based on some poorly-understood code culled from Android itself. Blending all of that together, you may be able to implement what you seek. However, this will be rather difficult, and may not result in a user interface that is very usable. I strongly encourage you to simply have list item clicks be the way to indicate to edit an item, not a gesture.

I think You can use a 2 Child ViewFlipper as your Listitem.
one child for a normal dispaly(a TextView maybe), another a EditText.
and in case it work as you said, don't forget to set gesterListener on your ViewFlipper,do showNext or showPrevious in your OnFling method.

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I need a component that works like the picture below but I'm having trouble coming up with some kind of decent solution that works.
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I am trying to implement a simple tree-like menu. I have a ListView as the root. Each item is a custom View that consists of an arrow icon at the right if it has a submenu and a checkbox taking up the rest of the row. This is all great.
Now here is what I want to do and can't figure out how (I am new to Android, but Googling didn't help me):
If the user slides to the left on an item with an arrow, the whole list will slide out to the left and the corresponding submenu will slide in from the right. If the user slides to the right anywhere on the menu, the whole menu will slide out to the right and the parent menu will slide back in from the left. When you picture it it is really a simple concept.
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I can't seem to attach events to the individual items. I tried just a simple toast with the onItemClickListener and couldn't get it to fire.
Any help or reference would be appreciated.
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I am trying to create something like (very poorly created in paint) in the image below:
I have only 4 items, and it won't be more. the items contains two textviews. But when you click on an item, i want it to expand, (like item 2) to the bottom with three extra buttons. It would be really nice if there would be some nice expand animation. I don't want this list to be scrollabe, it just need to fits in my screen. And only one can be expanded.
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Thanks
I would recommend using an expandable list view for this, as your second option described. For this type of list you can use a expandable listview adapter, describded here:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/ExpandableListAdapter.html
This adapter has both a getGroupView(open/close items) and a getChildView method in which you can inflate your layouts, or manually set them up. If you have used ordinary listviews I'm sure this wont be a problem for you, since it's basically the same operations.
This means you should probably inflate your childViews with a LinearLayout containing three buttons. Then you have to implement functionality for your collapse/expand logics by keeping track of which item index is opened.
I did this tutorial when I first started out with exp.list views, I found it helpful:
http://android-adda.blogspot.se/2011/06/custom-expandable-listview.html
Good luck!
You gotta check this http://udinic.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/expanding-listview-items/ it works neat. If you got any more problems, do ask...

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I've already implemented a list to display a list of songs for an app that I'm making. In the application, you can upvote songs to a communal player (or unvote them, if you placed a vote for it). Screen shot.
I was able to implement a fling gesture that you'd use to vote (swipe to the right) or unvote (swipe to the left), but you don't see any animation or selection on the song you chose. So, I was hoping to get something working where (at the least) another TextView replaces it in a sliding animation, kind of like how on contacts in Samsung's TouchWiz you can swipe right to call or left to message.
What would be the best way to go about this?
Should I try to make my ListView a list of ViewFlippers and use my fling gesture? (doesn't allow me to slide halfway and then change my mind) Or should I try to use something like this HorizontalPager: http://code.google.com/p/deezapps-widgets/ where each list item is one of those.
Is there a better option that I haven't suggested?

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