Question

I am trying to construct a ListActivity that uses a listview to display a list of friends and their associated status (ie single, in a relationship).

So far, I have an ArrayAdapter set like so:

Friend[] friendList = new Friend[] {
    new Friend("john doe", "single"), 
    new Friend("jane doe", "married")
};

setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<Friend>(this, R.layout.portal_listview, friendList));

I would like each item in the listview to display as such:

1name: john doe
status: single

2name: jane doe
status: married

Answer 1

Create you own CustomArrayAdapter which extends ArrayAdapter and overwrite the View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) method

I could be something like this

public class FriendAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Friend>{
    private Context context;
    private int resource;
    private ArrayList<Friend> friends;

    public FriendAdapter(Context context, int resource, ArrayList<Friend> friends) {
        super(context, resource, objects);
        this.context = context;
        this.resource = resource;
        this.friends = friends;
    }

@Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent){
        View view = convertView;
        if (view == null){
            LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater)context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
            view = vi.inflate(your_list_item_resource, null);
        }
        Friend friend = friends.get(position);
        view.setId(position);
        if (friend != null){
            TextView name = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.friendName);
            name.setText(friend.getName());
            TextView status = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.friendStatus);
            status.setText(friend.getStatus());
        }
        return view;
    }

Hope this can help you.