Question

I have an ArrayList<myObject> and a ListView with a personal ArrayAdapter<myObject> using an inflated View that generates a list of Buttons.

It works, but one button per line is quite layout consuming ^^

I wanted to know if it was possible to display two or more items (Button) per line and how to do such a thing ?

I thought about dividing my items in two lists (even and odd) but they’ll have to scroll all-together for a better user experience…

any idea ? or object that already implements it ?

Thanks

Answer 1

For that case, just take a GridView with 2 columns, i am sure this will fulfill your requirement.

gridview_row.xml

    <Button 
        android:text="Button" 
        android:id="@+id/button1" 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    </Button>

</LinearLayout>

and take GridView instad of ListView as:

 <GridView 
        android:id="@+id/gridview01" 
        android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:numColumns="2"
        android:horizontalSpacing="5dp"
        android:verticalSpacing="5dp">

 </GridView>

Once you are done with these 2 things, then implement the code in your custom adapter. And i am sure your current adapter is also 90% useful, you just need to change the code according the row xml file.