Question

I’m trying to add a textview dynamically to a listview as follows. I see items appearing in the listview but they show up like this

android.widget.TextView@44f076d0
android.widget.TextView@44f07b58
android.widget.TextView@44f07f50
etc...

   ArrayList<TextView> tv = new ArrayList<TextView>();
        for(int i=0; i < 10; i++){
            TextView t = new TextView(this);
            t.setText("hi there");
            tv.add(t);

        }
        ArrayAdapter<TextView> wordAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<TextView>(this,
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, android.R.id.text1,
                tv);

        this.articleListView.setAdapter(wordAdapter);

Answer 1

That’s because you are passing off the ArrayList of TextView Objects in the parameter for what the Adapter should display. Therefore, your tv list Objects are having their toString() method called. toString() for TextViews will give you TextView@number so this is expected. Change your tv ArrayList to an ArrayList of String, don’t make any new TextViews and just pass off that new String ArrayList instead of tv. Your text will display fine then.