Question

I have list item with EditText in it, I dont know how many items there will be.
I have a problem when I enter some text in EditText, and then scroll down a ListView, after I’ve scroll up again there is no text in my first EditText, or there is some text from other EditText from ListView.

I’ve tried TextWatcher, and saving data to array, but problems is that returned position of view in ListView isnt always right, so I lost some data from array. -.-

How to detect correct position of view in ListView?

For example:

If I have 10 items in ListView, and only 5 of them are currently visible.
Adapter return position from 0 to 4…thats ok.
When I scroll down position of item 6 is 0…wtf? and i lose data from array on position 0 🙂

Im using ArrayAdapter.

Please help.

Here’s some code:

public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {

    tmp_position = position;

    if (convertView == null) {

        holder = new ViewHolder();

        LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        convertView = vi.inflate(R.layout.element_in_game, null);

        holder.scoreToUpdate = (EditText) convertView
                .findViewById(R.id.elementUpdateScore);

        holder.scoreToUpdate.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

            @Override
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start,
                    int before, int count) {
                scoresToUpdate[tmp_position] = s.toString();
            }

            @Override
            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start,
                    int count, int after) {

            }

            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {

            }
        });

        initScoresToUpdateEditTexts(holder.scoreToUpdate, hint);

        convertView.setTag(holder);

    } else {

        holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();

        holder.scoreToUpdate.setText(scoresToUpdate[tmp_position]);

    }

    return convertView;
}

Answer 1

you should try in this way as below:

if (convertView == null) {

        holder = new ViewHolder();

        LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater)    
        getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        convertView = vi.inflate(R.layout.element_in_game, null);

        holder.scoreToUpdate = (EditText) convertView
                .findViewById(R.id.elementUpdateScore);


        convertView.setTag(holder);

    } else {

        holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();

    }
   //binding data from array list
   holder.scoreToUpdate.setText(scoresToUpdate[position]);
   holder.scoreToUpdate.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

            @Override
            public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start,
                    int before, int count) {
                //setting data to array, when changed
                scoresToUpdate[position] = s.toString();
            }

            @Override
            public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start,
                    int count, int after) {

            }

            @Override
            public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {

            }
        });

    return convertView;
}

Explanation:
Recycling behavior of ListView, actually erase all data bind with its Row Item, when go out of vision.
So every new row coming in in vision from whatever direction you need to bind data again.
Also, when EditText text change you have to keep values also in some data structure, so later on again row data binding you can extract data for position.
You can use, array ArrayList for keeping edittext data, and also can use to bind data.

Similar behavior use in Recyclerview Adapter, behind logic you need to know about data binding of row data of adapters.