Question

in my app i am using a list view. The data which i want to list out are from a database of my app and an xml server database.

For example i am getting some two set of data from server and store it in a array as follows

firstname = {arun, Arun, Rajesh} 
lastname  = {kumar, sundar, kannan}

Now again i am getting some data from my app database and store it in array as follows

first = {arul}
last  = {raj}

Now i have combined the array list together as follows

firstname.addAll(first);
lastname.addAll(last);

Now i have the output as

{arun, Arun, Rajesh, arul} 
{kumar, sundar, kannan, raj}

Now i want to list out these items as in the following image

how to do this, please help me……

Answer 1

If you finally get all your firstname and lastname in two separate array then it is very simple to display on ListView as you want

first create a layout which has a listview element lets us name main.xml

then create a another layout having two TextView in Horizontal layout orientation let us name mainitem.xml

so now you create a new activity then call setContentView(R.layout.main)

then retrive list view

and now create a adapter by following code

this code is in onCreate(Bundle b) method

ListView lv= (ListView)findViewById(R.id.listview1);

        // create the grid item mapping
        String[] from = new String[] {"col_1","col_2"};
        int[] to = new int[] { R.id.firstname, R.id.secondname};

        // prepare the list of all records
        List<HashMap<String, String>> fillMaps = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();
        for(int i = 0; i <firstname.length && lastname.length; i++)
        {
            HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
            map.put("col_1",firstname[i]);
            map.put("col_2",lastname[i]);
            fillMaps.add(map);
        }

        // fill in the grid_item layout
        SimpleAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(this, fillMaps, R.layout.mainitem, from, to);
        lv.setAdapter(adapter);

create mainitem.xml file having two TextView which id are 1)R.id.firstname, 2) R.id.lastname in layout horizontal orientation