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Asked: 2026-05-26T22:03:53+00:00

I ran into the situation that I need a way to edit the data

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I ran into the situation that I need a way to edit the data of list-view item from another activity. I can handle the click event on each item, then edit it on the fly. However, I still prefer to handle all the editing in a separate activity. My listview item is customized from BaseAdapter.
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Each item within the ListView, contains two other TextView. When the I hit the menu setting, it will go to another activity where I can edit and update the information:
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I’m currently having two solutions in mind. Either retrieving data from the previous activity and update the whole ListView (which I think it’s kinda expensive in the case user just edit one item). Or I can just get rid of the ListView and create a bunch TextView in the xml, by doing this I can just reference to each TextView by their id. So my question is, which way is preferred in this case? Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your ListView is displaying Email, Name, Headline, etc? That should be a fixed XML layout with TextView entries, I think. ListView is for variable numbers of elements. You CAN implement it with a ListView, but I wouldn’t.

    However, your concern about updating the whole list being overkill, I wouldn’t worry about that either. You’re talking about 7-10 fields. The amount of time Android needs to run through its lifecycle and display everything will dwarf you updating a few fields.

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