Question

I’m new to Android and I think I’m trying to do something really basic: I have a 5 strings in my Array (say ‘One’, ‘Two’, …). I want to add these 5 strings to my list view in my listactivity.

My List:

<ListView 
    android:id="@+id/android:list"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>

My List Row:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView android:id="@+id/homeItemName" 
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_weight="1"/>
</LinearLayout>

Basically, I want to bind the Array items to the TextView homeItemName. I might add other items in my row later, so I can’t just bind the listview to the entries.

Thanks!

Answer 1

For code, take a quick look at this step-by-step tutorial

setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.list_item, COUNTRIES));  
ListView lv = getListView();

It shows a basic implementation of an ArrayAdapter:

R.layout.list_item : is the xml layout (list_item.xml) that will be used for every ROW of your
listview.
COUNTRIES is the array of Strings.