Question

I have a custom adapter which formats for me, alphabet headers and then corresponding names underthem, but I want to put a unique footer at the bottom that will display the number of contacts, for example “Total number of contacts in list: 21”

 class LetterAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String> {
    LetterAdapter() {
        super(ContactProjectActivity.this, R.layout.row, R.id.label, sortedNames);
    }

    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        View row = convertView;

        if (row == null) {
            LayoutInflater inflater=getLayoutInflater();
            row = inflater.inflate(R.layout.row, parent, false);
        }

        TextView label = (TextView) row.findViewById(R.id.label);   
        label.setText(sortedNames.get(position));

        if (sortedNames.get(position).length() == 1) {
            //label.setText("The size is " + searchNames.size());
            label.setTextSize(15);
            row.setBackgroundColor(Color.GRAY);
        }
        else {
            label.setTextSize(20);
            label.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
            row.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE);
        }
        return(row);

    }
}

I am extending ListActivity so I don’t have a ListView variable in my code. Any code snippets or suggestions would be helpful.

I want to customize the footer also, with its own background color (similar to how I did the letter headers in the code).

Answer 1

You could get the ListView from you ListActivity with the method getListView() and then try to set your footer view before you set the adapter.