Question

i have an android application which has a listview for listing 14 items inside it. i have coded as

<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent">
        <ListView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:clickable="true"
            android:id="@+id/my_list"/>
    </LinearLayout>

and my activity file is working as

ListView list;
list = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.my_list);
ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> list_adapter= ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
        this, R.array.my_array, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1);
my_list.setAdapter(list_adapter);

The code works properly. but i want to reduce the size of listview, so that i can list maximum items in the screen.

how can i do this? i had searched it. but didnt find any useful guidance.

Answer 1

Got it dear…

Its simple…

I had just made my own layout in R/layout as mylist.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:layout_width="fill_parent"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:textSize="7pt"    
              android:paddingTop="2dip" 
              android:paddingBottom="2dip"
              android:textColor="@android:color/black"   
              android:gravity="center"/>

and then i changed my main.xml to show a listview. like,

<LinearLayout android:orientation="horizontal"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent">
        <ListView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:id="@+id/my_list"/>
    </LinearLayout>

And atlast i have my actvty file like

    // all the stuff
    // i cant put my code here,na?:)
   //Its simple. just change layout to ours
    ListView list;
    list = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.my_list);
    ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> list_adapter= ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
            this, R.array.my_array, R.layout.mylist);
    my_list.setAdapter(list_adapter);