Question

my problem seems simple but I can not manage to find an answer here.

I have different activities in one application. Activities start each other.
I have a “main-screen” that shows all the different available levels, user clicks on a level and that activity is lunched, when user finishes that level, he can press the back-button to go to the main-screen and start another level.
When back-button is pressed I would like to re-draw the “main-screen” again, since this time the thumb for the completed level will be different to show that it is completed.

So how do I run a re-draw on a activity upon back-button pressed?
(I suppose I should put some code in the Activity.onResume method)
(I use SharedPreferences to save the state of finished levels)

The main-screen activity is basically this:

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.maps);


    SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences((getResources().getString(R.string.PREFS_HI)),0);
    /**/
      GridView gridview = (GridView) findViewById(R.id.gridview);
      gridview.setAdapter(new ImageAdapter(this,(settings.getBoolean("level_1_finished", false))));
      /**/
      gridview.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
          public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View v, int position, long id) {
            //Open the map which was clicked on, if there is one
            if(position+1 > 1){
                Toast.makeText(maps.this, "Level " + (position+1) + " is not yet available!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }else{
                Toast.makeText(maps.this, "Opening Level " + (position+1), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                Intent myIntent = new Intent(v.getContext(), Tutorial2D.class);
                startActivity(myIntent);
            }
          }
      });
}

ImageAdapter then uses the boolean true/false to choose the source of the image, either the unfinished thumb or the finished level thumb.

Answer 1

First put your GridView objet as a class member. Then override the onResume() method in which you can re-set the grid view adapter based on what the user did.

private GridView gridview;
@Override
protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    gridview.setAdapter(/* your new ImageAdapter here */);
}