I’m having a hard time finding a way to populate a list view from

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Asked: June 11, 20262026-06-11T10:53:06+00:00 2026-06-11T10:53:06+00:00

I’m having a hard time finding a way to populate a list view from

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I’m having a hard time finding a way to populate a list view from a database.

here’s my code:

SQLDatabase.java

import android.content.ContentValues;
import android.content.Context;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.database.SQLException;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteOpenHelper;

public class SQLDatabase {

    public static final String KEY_MOVENAME = "movename";
    public static final String KEY_MOVEID = "_moveid";
    public static final String KEY_MOVEDATE = "movedate";

    private static final String DATABASE_NAME = "mymovingfriend";
    private static final int DATABASE_VERSION = 1;

    private static final String DATABASE_TABLE = "movingname";

    public static final String CREATE_TABLE = "CREATE TABLE " + DATABASE_TABLE + " (" + KEY_MOVEID +
            " INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, " + KEY_MOVEDATE + " TEXT NOT NULL, " + KEY_MOVENAME + " TEXT NOT NULL);";


    private DbHelper ourHelper;
    private final Context ourContext;
    private SQLiteDatabase ourDatabase;

    private static class DbHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper{

        public DbHelper(Context context) {
            super(context, DATABASE_NAME, null, DATABASE_VERSION);
            // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
        }

        @Override
        public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            db.execSQL(CREATE_TABLE);
        }

        @Override
        public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldversion, int newversion) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            db.execSQL("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS " + DATABASE_TABLE);
            onCreate(db);
        }
    }

    public SQLDatabase(Context c){
        ourContext = c;
    }

    public SQLDatabase open() throws SQLException{
        ourHelper = new DbHelper(ourContext);
        ourDatabase = ourHelper.getWritableDatabase();
        return this;
    }

    public void close(){
        ourHelper.close();
    }

    public long createMove(String smovename){
        ContentValues cv = new ContentValues();
        cv.put(KEY_MOVENAME, smovename);
        return ourDatabase.insert(DATABASE_TABLE, null, cv);
    }

    public String getMove(){
        String[] column = new String[]{KEY_MOVENAME};
        Cursor c = ourDatabase.query(DATABASE_TABLE, column, null, null, null, null, null);
        String result = "";

        int iMove = c.getColumnIndex(KEY_MOVENAME);

        for (c.moveToFirst(); !c.isAfterLast(); c.moveToNext()) {
            result = result + c.getString(iMove) + "\n";
        }
        c.close();
        return result;
    }

}

and here’s my listview class, basically this is where the listview its a separate class from the database.

ListMovingNames.java

import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ListView;

public class ListMovingNames extends ListActivity {
    ListView MoveList;

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

        MoveList = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.lvMoveItems);

    }

    @Override
    protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        super.onListItemClick(l, v, position, id);
    }

}

What I want to do is populate the list view and perform a specific task when one item has been selected from the list.