Question

I’ve had a look around, and it might be because I’m not sure what I’m looking for, but I can’t find out how to do something I presume should be quite easy with android.

I have an array of data to display on the screen. This data is a class that holds a database key, name and image.

I’m currently displaying this data as an ImageView and a TextView. I loop through the array and add a new row to a TableLayout containing the image and text.

I’d like both the image and text to be clickable, changing to a new activity.

This new activity needs to know the database key of the row clicked in order to display the correct data.

Here’s what I have so far:

private void fillSuggestionTable(TableLayout tabSuggestions, Suggestion[] arrToAdd)
{
    for(int i = 0; i < arrToAdd.length; i++)
    {
        /* Create a new row to be added. */
        TableRow trSuggestion = new TableRow(this);
        trSuggestion.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));

        /* Create objects for the row-content. */
        ImageView imgDisplayPicture = new ImageView(this);
        ImageHandler.loadBitmap(arrToAdd[i].strImageURL, imgDisplayPicture);
        imgDisplayPicture.setLayoutParams(new LayoutParams(50,50));

        TextView txtArtistName = new TextView(this);
        txtArtistName.setText(arrToAdd[i].strName);
        txtArtistName.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#000000"));

        /* Add data to row. */
        trSuggestion.addView(imgDisplayPicture);
        trSuggestion.addView(txtArtistName);

        /* Add row to TableLayout. */
        tabSuggestions.addView(trSuggestion, new TableLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
    }
}

Answer 1

Is there a reason you’re using a TableView? it seems like what you want to accomplish would be much easier with a ListView & custom CursorAdapter, where the adapter can handle translating from the database to the ListView row. At that point starting a new activity that knows the database ID is trivial:

mListView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
  @Override
  public void onItemClick (AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
    Intent i = new Intent(MyActivity.this, MyOtherActivity.class);
    i.putExtra("database_id", id);
    startActivity(i);
  }
});

And in MyOtherActivity:

private int dbId;
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  //do stuff
  dbId = getIntent().getIntExtra("database_id", -1); // the -1 is the default if the extra can't be found
}