Question

I have successfully used a SimpleCursorAdapter to list displayname and value (both in my DB) and displayed them in my list activity.

What I am was trying to do now was add a new view (ImageView) for each item in my list activity. It is supposed to look like this in the end.

Image_1_NotInDB -- DisplayName1FromDB -- DisplayName1FromDB
Image_2_NotInDB -- DisplayName2FromDB -- DisplayName2FromDB.

The image is going to different (based on DisplayName1FromDB). I don’t think SimpleCursorAdapter is good anymore for this purpose.

I tried creating a customSimpleCursorAdapter extending SimpleCursorAdapter and tried to use ‘newView’ and ‘bindView’ methods to achieve. I pretty much followed this: Custom CursorAdapters.

The problem is; what Image I use is based on a value from DB (which I intended to pass in the constructor or customSimpleCursorAdapter)

public View newView(Context pContext, Cursor pCursor, ViewGroup pParent)
{
    Cursor lCursor = getCursor();
    final LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(pContext);
    View lView = inflater.inflate(layout, pParent, false);
    int lImage = "dog".equals(variable) ? R.drawable.dog : R.drawable.cat;
    // "variable" is a member variable (set at the constructor)
    ImageView lImageView = (ImageView) lView.findViewById(R.id.appImage);
    if (lImageView != null)
    {
        lImageView.setImageResource(lImage);
    }
    return pParent;
}

public void bindView(View pView, Context pContext, Cursor pCursor)
{
    int lImage = "dog".equals(variable) ? R.drawable.dog : R.drawable.cat;
    // "variable" is a member variable (set at the constructor)
    ImageView lImageView = (ImageView) lView.findViewById(R.id.appImage);
    if (lImageView != null)
    {
        lImageView.setImageResource(lImage);
    }
}

This is how I tried using the “customSimpleCursorAdapter”

    String[] lDisplay = new String[] {KEY_NAME, KEY_TIME};
    int[] lValues = new int[] {R.id.name, R.id.time};
    CustomRowCursorAdapter lCursorAdapter = new CustomRowCursorAdapter(this, R.layout.row, lSTime, lDisplay, lValues, "MY IDEA WAS TO PASS THE ANIMAL NAME HERE, BUT NOT LUCK as I am not sure How ");
    lCursorAdapter.newView(this, lSTime, getListView());
    lCursorAdapter.bindView(getListView(), this, lSTime);
    setListAdapter(lCursorAdapter);

Is ArrayAdapter the answer? If yes, could you share what parameters would you pass to it?

Answer 1

I recommend to go for custom adapter