Question

So basically what I would love to do is to be able to build up a list of editable fields using editText boxes. However, instead of going into my XML layout and adding a new editText each time I want to add something to the list, is there a way to do this similarly to building a listView? That is, every time I add to my array of editViews the new editView is “automatically” added?

So basically, I’m referring to this example for a listView:

http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-listview.html

In this example, if you simply add to the items in the following XML, you get more list items to appear in your app.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string-array name="countries_array">
        <item>Bahrain</item>
        <item>Bangladesh</item>
        <item>Barbados</item>
        <item>Belarus</item>
        <item>Belgium</item>
        <item>Belize</item>
        <item>Benin</item>
    </string-array>
</resources>

Is there a way to do this for editText Views? Or even some other kind of editable widget?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Try changing the TextView in the list_item.xml from that tutorial to be an EditText instead and see what happens…

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<EditText xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:padding="10dp"
    android:textSize="16sp" >
</EditText>