Question

I have a ListView, and I have a custom View, PostView.

How would I go about creating a new PostView(), and adding it to the ListView via .addFooterView(), but still being able to access the object representation of the PostView.

Right now I’m trying:

// the footer
p = new PostView( this );

p.setTargetUri( C.API_CONTENT );
p.setRenderMode( PostView.MODE_TEXT | PostView.MODE_IMAGE );

commentListView.addFooterView( p );

But that is failing, when I try to access the should have been inflated XML components.

Mainly:

public void setRenderMode( int renderMode )
{
  this.renderMode = renderMode;

  // fails
  this.postImagePreview = (ImageView)findViewById( R.id.new_post_image_preview );
}

Am I going about this wrong? I have an onFinishInflate() defined, but maybe I’m prematurely accessing the Views?

Answer 1

The solution for me was to just have a super custom List Adapter, that was capable of returning different types of views, and manually adding a header and footer view around the generated list content.