ListView Example In Android Studio

List of scrollable items can be displayed in Android using ListView It helps you to displaying the data in the form of a scrollable list. Users can then select any list item by clicking on it. ListView is default scrollable so we do not need to use scroll View or anything else with ListView.

 To fill the data in a ListView we simply use adapters. List items are automatically inserted to a list using an Adapter that pulls the content from a source such as an arraylist, array or database.

Attibute of Adapter:-

1. id: id is used to uniquely identify a ListView

2. divider: This is a drawable or color to draw between different list items.

3. dividerHeight: This specify the height of the divider between list items. 

4. listSelector: listSelector property is used to set the selector of the listView.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/simpleListView"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:divider="@color/material_blue_grey_800"
        android:dividerHeight="1dp" />

</LinearLayout>

Uses Of Adapter:-

An Adapter is a bridge between UI component and data source It holds the data and send the data to adapter view then view can takes the data from the adapter view and shows the data on different views like as list view, grid view, spinner etc.

An android commonly used adapters are:

1.Array Adapter

2.Base Adapter

1 Array Adapter:Whenever you have a list of single items which is backed by an array, you can use ArrayAdapter. For example, list of phone contacts, list of vegitable name and so on.

             Example of list view using Array Adapter:

Step 1: activity_main.xml

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

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:orientation="vertical">

    <ListView

        android:id="@+id/simpleListView"

        android:layout_width="fill_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:divider="@color/material_blue_grey_800"

        android:dividerHeight="1dp" />

</LinearLayout>

Step 2: activity_listview.xml

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

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:orientation="vertical">

    <TextView

        android:layout_marginTop="20dp"

        android:id="@+id/textView"

        android:layout_width="fill_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:padding="25dp"

        android:layout_gravity="center"/>

</LinearLayout>

Step 3: MainActivity.java

package com.example.CodeWithAndroid;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.view.Menu;

import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;import android.widget.ListView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity

{

    // Array of strings...

    ListView simpleList;

    String countryList[] = {"Java", "Php", ".net", "C language", "C++", "Kotlin"};

    @Override   protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);      setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        simpleList = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.simpleListView);

        ArrayAdapter<String> arrayAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.activity_listview, R.id.textView, countryList);

        simpleList.setAdapter(arrayAdapter);

    }

}

   

2.Base Adapter:BaseAdapter is a common base class of a general implementation of an Adapter that can be used in ListView. Whenever you need a customized list you create your own adapter and extend base adapter in that. Base Adapter can be extended to create a custom Adapter for displaying a custom list item.  ArrayAdapter is also an implementation of BaseAdapter.

 Example of list view using Custom adapter(Base adapter):

Step 1: activity_main.xml

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

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:orientation="vertical">

    <ListView

        android:id="@+id/simpleListView"

        android:layout_width="fill_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:divider="@color/material_blue_grey_800"

        android:dividerHeight="1dp" />

</LinearLayout>

Step 2: activity_listview.xml

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

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:orientation="horizontal">

    <ImageView

        android:layout_marginTop="20dp"

        android:id="@+id/icon"

        android:layout_width="50dp"

        android:layout_height="50dp"

        android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher_background" />

    <TextView

        android:id="@+id/textView"

        android:layout_width="fill_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_gravity="center"

        android:padding="25dp"

        android:textColor="#F00737" />

</LinearLayout>

Step 3: MainActivity.java

package com.example.Codewithandroid;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.view.Menu;

import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;

import android.widget.ListView;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.widget.ListView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    ListView simpleList;

    String countryList[] = {"java", ".net", "php", "google", "yahooo", "clanguage"};

    int flags[] = {R.drawable.java, R.drawable.net, R.drawable.php, R.drawable.google, R.drawable.yahoo, R.drawable.c_langugae};

    @Override

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        simpleList = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.simpleListView);

        CustomAdapter customAdapter = new CustomAdapter(getApplicationContext(), countryList, flags);

        simpleList.setAdapter(customAdapter);

    }

}

Step 4: CustomAdapter.java

package com.example.Codewithandroid;

import android.content.Context;

import android.media.Image;

import android.view.LayoutInflater;

import android.view.View;

import android.view.ViewGroup;

import android.widget.BaseAdapter;

import android.widget.ImageView;

import android.widget.TextView;

import java.util.zip.Inflater;

public class CustomAdapter extends BaseAdapter {

    Context context;

    String countryList[];

    int flags[];

    LayoutInflater inflter;

    public CustomAdapter(Context applicationContext, String[] countryList, int[] flags) {

        this.context = context;

        this.countryList = countryList;

        this.flags = flags;

        inflter = (LayoutInflater.from(applicationContext));

    }

    @Override

    public int getCount() {

        return countryList.length;

    }

    @Override

    public Object getItem(int i) {

        return null;

    }

    @Override

    public long getItemId(int i) {

        return 0;

    }

    @Override

    public View getView(int i, View view, ViewGroup viewGroup) {

        view = inflter.inflate(R.layout.activity_listview, null);

        TextView country = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.textView);

        ImageView icon = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.icon);

        country.setText(countryList[i]);

        icon.setImageResource(flags[i]);

        return view;

    }

}