Question

This is where I am stuck now. I am stuck at dynamically adding buttons to gridview.
– My gridview stars with a one button.
– When user clicks that button a context menu , pops up, asking user to enter info, once that is done. A block in the grid view is created with that info
– This is shown in the picture

I have pasted the code. I do not have clear idea on how to do it. I am assuming it will be inflating a new view and adding it to parent(layout or grid ?) view. I do not have much idea on how to code it. I have tried many things from google. I thought I could start from simple image gridview and modify it to my needs but it did not work.

Please provide some directions.

create_team_new.xml(layout where gridview resides)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/parentcreateteam"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     android:background="@drawable/background">

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/citytextview"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/city"
    android:layout_alignTop="@+id/teamcity"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" />

<AutoCompleteTextView
    android:id="@+id/teamname"
    android:layout_width="244dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/teamcity"
    android:layout_alignRight="@+id/gridviewplayer"
    android:text="@string/teamname"
    android:textSize="18sp" >
<requestFocus />
</AutoCompleteTextView>
<Button
    android:id="@+id/createteam"
    android:layout_width="140dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Create Team"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
     android:background="@drawable/red_button"
          style="@+style/button_text" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/teamnametextview"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="22dp"
    android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/teamname"
    android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/teamname"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:text="@string/teamname" />

<AutoCompleteTextView
    android:id="@+id/teamcity"
    android:layout_width="244dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/cricket"
    android:layout_alignRight="@+id/gridviewplayer"
    android:layout_below="@+id/teamname"
    android:layout_marginTop="22dp"
    android:ems="10"
    android:text="@string/city"
    android:textSize="18sp" >


</AutoCompleteTextView>

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/radiotextview"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_below="@+id/teamcity"
    android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
    android:text="Pick a Sport" />


<GridView
    android:id="@+id/gridviewplayer"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="170dp"
    android:layout_above="@+id/createteam"
    android:layout_below="@+id/pick_sport"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:background="@drawable/gv_bkg"
 android:padding="5dp"
    android:numColumns="4" >

</GridView>



<RadioGroup
    android:id="@+id/pick_sport"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"

    android:layout_alignRight="@+id/createteam"
    android:layout_below="@+id/radiotextview"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <RadioButton
        android:id="@+id/cricket"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Cricket" />

    <RadioButton
        android:id="@+id/soccer"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Soccer" />
</RadioGroup>

</RelativeLayout>

gv_createplayer.xml(view to be inflated inside gridview)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >

<Button  android:id="@+id/btn_player"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="wrap_content"

    android:text= "+"

    android:background="@drawable/red_button">

</Button>
</LinearLayout>

PlayerAdapter.java(gridview Adapter)

import android.content.Context;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.BaseAdapter;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.GridView;
import android.widget.ImageView;

public class PlayerAdapter extends BaseAdapter {

    private Context mContext;
    LayoutInflater inflater;

    // Keep all Images in array
    public Integer[] mThumbIds = {};
        /*  R.drawable.gridview_createteam, R.drawable.pic2,
            R.drawable.pic3, R.drawable.pic4,
            R.drawable.pic5, R.drawable.pic6,
            R.drawable.pic7, R.drawable.pic8,
            R.drawable.pic9, R.drawable.pic10,
            R.drawable.pic11, R.drawable.pic12,
            R.drawable.pic13, R.drawable.pic14,
            R.drawable.pic15
    };
*/
    // Constructor
    public PlayerAdapter(Context c){
        mContext = c;
    }

    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        return mThumbIds.length;
    }

    @Override
    public Object getItem(int position) {
        return mThumbIds[position];
    }

    @Override
    public long getItemId(int position) {
        return 0;
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("static-access")
    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        View view = new View(mContext);
        view.inflate(mContext, R.layout.gv_createplayer,null);

        return view;


    }


}

Answer 1

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