Question

I need to extend the ListActivity and populate a custom layout so I do the following

public class BizList extends ListActivity {

String bizNames[]={"one", "two","theree","four"};

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.bizlist);

    //ListView listviewMe = (ListView)findViewById(android.R.id.list);
    //ListView listview = this.getListView();

    setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.id.list, bizNames));

/*  ListView list1 = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listView1);
        list1.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(getApplicationContext(),R.layout.list_item,startDates_str));;*/

}

and my ListView in my layout is

  <ListView
        android:id="@id/android:list"//***have also tried*** android:id="@android:id/list"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_below="@+id/imageView2"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" >

    </ListView>

but I keep getting this error

android.content.res.resources$notfoundexception: File form xml type layout resoucse ID

Any and all help is greatly appreciated. I hope it’s something simple. thx agin.

Answer 1

Firstly for ListActivity to automatically find the list, the resource id MUST be…

android:id="@android:id/list"

Secondly, when you create the ArrayAdapter, don’t pass the id of the ListView itself into the constructor. Instead you should pass the resource id of a list item layout.

Try this…

setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, bizNames));