Question

I woud like to create a listview that alternates background images. For example, the first item would have background image a and the second item would have background image b and the third backgroud a. In basic terms I would like help on creating a listview that for every odd item (egg first, third, fith) has a certian background image different to those listview items which are even (egg second, fourth, and sixth listview item). Here’s an exampe.

http://www.gadgetreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/SIRI-Reminders.jpg

In this example the speech bubbles are background image and each different background image is a different listview item.

Answer 1

In your list adapter in the getView method divide the position attribute that gets sent into the method by 2. If the remaining number is 0 than you are in the even row of your listview. Depending on that you can change the layout of your list view item.

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

if(position % 2 = 0)
//set layout for even row
}else{
//set layout for odd row
}