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How to get the view in a custom list view at a specific position? Android?

Let me explain this--
For example - I have a custom list view set up that shows 3 text fields in a group.. I.e. each click able item in that list view will have 3 texts.. so now I want to get the 2nd text view at the 5th index of that listview...How to achieve this?
If a have a basic listview with only one item at each index, then this can be achieved by using getItemAtPosition().
Is this similar in the above case also?

You don't. THe entire point of a listview is that it DOESNT create views for every element in the list- only the ones on screen. So if your list is more than trivially long, it probably doesn't have a view for that item. If you think you need this, you're probably architecting your code wrong for a listview.

ListFragment onListItemClick - how to know which component is clicked

The View Object is from onListItemClick(ListView listView, View view, int position, long id) is RelativeLayout.
However, I want to know which component inside the RelativeLayout is clicked as well for extended functionality.
How do I do that?

This answer show why use recyclerview instead of Listview, I think recyclerview will solve your problem stackoverflow.com/a/24933117/2242903

You have to add a listener to every view in RelativeLayout you want to listen. If you want to use a single listener, create one and add it to all of the views you want to listen. In your onClick method, you can put view.getId() to switch statement and determine which one is clicked.
OnItemClickListener won't solve your problem. Neither switching to RecyclerView. They work the same way. It is all about your adapter. If you are using a custom adapter, it doesn't matter you use ListView or RecyclerView. In your adapter, you have access to your components that are in your RelativeLayout. Create a listener as I explained above and add them to your views.
Not the same but similar question: Android: Add event listeners to every item in a ListView

View for a list of items that don't scroll, and handle on item click events by the item position

Just like a ListView but instead it doesn't scroll. Its content is added programatically via an ArrayAdapter. Is there any view that can be used for this purpose?
PS: Not LinearLayout, since it doesn't get its content from an adapter (I want the observer pattern)
Edit: Let me explain a little bit more. Suppose you need a list of items, but the list itself is not scrollable, what is scrollable is the screen.
That being said, the list of items should show ALL items, not a limited amount based on a fixed height. The way to go is LinearLayout as it is both non-scrollable and shows all items within itself.
But there is a third requierement. You don't want to add(View) directly, but instead, you want something similar to an ArrayAdapter so that you have a control of the items and their position, so you can handle on item click events based on their position. As far as I know, this can't be done using a LinearLayout. So my question is, does any view exist for this purpose?

You could try using a ListView, but disable scrolling, as described here

Put your layout inside a ScrollView and yes you have to use a Linearlayout. You need to set tag for each of your view that you add dynamically and whenever your view is clicked you can get it's position by view.getTag() and perform the required operation.
Note : Adding views at run time may affect performance.

Resize ListView Element While Viewing in Android?

What I am trying to do is populate a listView with views/elements that could be a textview/imageview. Potentially, these textviews are expandable. I want the listview to resize and wrap the content if the textview is expanded.
There are several solutions out there already:
1. Make the elements of the ListView element invisible so that the view in ListView is already the size you want. In this case, create the text view with the original long string and then collapse it.
2. Resize the element in the adapter then call notifyDataSetChanged();
However I'm looking for a solution where the view in ListView automatically resizes, even when its visible. I have tried using Solution #2 and while it works for changing values inside the view such as a string, it doesn't resize the view altogether unless the view is scrolled off screen then comes back into view.
The relevant part of my code is as follows:
holder.text.setTrim(!holder.text.getTrim());
holder.text.setText();
holder.text.requestFocusFromTouch();
notifyDataSetChanged();
holder.text.invalidate();
vi.invalidate();
vi.requestLayout();
I put this inside an OnClickListener inside an adapter's getView function.
Anyone have any solutions?
PS. Has anyone tried doing a method with multiple adapters? This one doesnt seem to work too well for me because I have potentially hundreds of elements.
Edit:
So I've come up with part of a stupid solution that is absolutely ridiculous. The behavior makes no sense. Below (primaryTextView is the same text as above eg. holder.primaryTextView == holder.text)
holder.primaryTextView.setTrim(!holder.primaryTextView.getTrim());
if(!holder.primaryTextView.getTrim()){
holder.primaryTextView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
else{
holder.primaryTextView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}
notifyDataSetChanged();
vi.invalidate();
This allows you to expand the view while viewing it but does not allow you to shrink the view once the text is collapsed. Furthermore, View.GONE and View.VISIBLE are NOT interchangable. Finally, the textView does not even dissapear in the event that View.GONE is triggered. Perhaps this might be a clue?

it doesn't resize the view altogether unless the view is scrolled off screen then comes back into view.
It is working, but you are not refreshing the listview, when you scroll off & return, listview recreates the updated view.
You should notifyDataSetChanged(); adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

Nevermind found the problem:
In my layout, I was using height="0dp" instead of "wrap_content"

Android list view with static selected position

I've working on app that need custom list view...
List view should act like some kind of vertical gallery.
In gallery selected item is always on center.
In my app I use navigation keys only or remote controller.
So there is no fling or regular scrolling effect.
I need for example second element in my list to be selected always.
If I want to move up, all elements are scrolled one place up, and selected item has to be changed, but on same place on the screen like previous selected item.
It's the same thing like gallery only vertical.
Is there a simple way to do this?
Is there a vertical gallery implementation?
How can I make gallery widget vertical?
Or how to customize list view to act like that?
Tnx!

try setting onClick Listener on ListView
ListView listView1=(ListView) findViewById(R.id.listView1);
then implemt a class class SearchItemClickListener implements OnItemClickListener
and set listview.onItemClickListenr you will get position and view.
Hope this helps

You can get the current visible first postion by using,
mListView.getFirstVisiblePosition();
after getting the current visible position and its respective data, you can perform your desired task (i.e. display the large image after getting the thumbnail or something like this).
OR
If you don't want to depend on only first or last position and want to select some other visible row then you can do something like this,
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
{
int visiblePosition = position % nObjects; // nObjects if the total number of objects to display
if(visiblePosition == yourDesiredPosition){
// do your custom work here.
}
}
Here is a demo for vertical slide show,
Hope this will give you some hint about implementing your functionality.

I've managed this using setSelected() method on ListView item...and managing key listener.
Didn't found smarter way to handle this.