Question

How do you get the first list item in a listView? I want to get at a TextView in the first list item.
I am currently doing this:

View listItem=(View)myList.getChildAt(0);
TextView txtDep=(TextView)listItem.findViewById(R.id.txtDepart);
txtDep.setText("Hello!");

But this is not only changing the text in the first item but in every 8th, 16th and so on items. I would like to change the text in the first(top) item only.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Views are recycled so your TextView will be used for many different items in the list. If you want to change what a specific item displays then you need to change the data that is behind your ListItem and is being served up by the ListAdapter (in the getView() method). So whenever the ListView shows the item in the list, the adapter will show the correct data in the TextView.

And when you change data in your list or whatever, you will need to call notifyDataSetChanged() on your adapter.