Question

I have a CustomAdapter with two textviews. I need to grab the value/string of each.

I can grab the first one by doing this:

List<String> dataList;
List<String> catList; 
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1,
                    int arg2, long id) {

firstTextView = dataList.get(arg2); // This grabs TextView #1
secondTextView = catList. ???

// later on


adapter = new SearchAdapter(SearchableActivity.this, dataList, catList);
setListAdapter(adapter);

How do I get the second value? I can’t create an arg3 obviously

Any ideas?

Edit: Or is this not doable for ArrayAdapter and I need to create something more custom with, say, BaseAdapter?

Answer 1

Use the second parameter of the onItemClick method:

TextView first = (TextView) arg1.findViewById(R.id.first_textview);
String s1 = first.getText().toString();
TextView second = (TextView) arg1.findViewById(R.id.second_textview);
String s2 = second.getText().toString();

Maybe it would be better to just return a special object from your adapter that incorporates the two strings like:

class DataStructure {
    String s1, s2
}

and return this from this adapter.