Question

I have an array of strings which I want to display using a ListView.
I checked online and found that it can be done by extending my class from ListActivity.
But I am facing a problem.
In my application I have already inherited TabActivity.
Now, I cant inherit multiples classes.
What do I do now ?
I need to keep the tabs and also generate the strings in the ListView.
All suggestions are welcome.

Answer 1

Fortunately, you don’t need to inherit from ListActivity to use a ListView. The only thing inheriting from ListActivity buys you is that it automatically finds a ListView in your layout with an attribute android:id="@android:id/list", and adds a helper method for setting the list’s adapter (along with some other helper methods which are accessible on the ListView itself).

So, in your case, since you can not inherit from multiple classes, you can keep the super class of TabActivity and simply call findViewById to find your ListView, and then call setAdapter on your ListView manually.