Simple Listview example in android

Creating Listview in android is pretty simple if you want a simple list. There are two way using it

• Creating Listview using Listview control widget

• Creating Listview using ListActivity 

If you are using second method then it implicitly give a Listview to add data using BaseAdapter. While using Listview we add data dynamically using Adapters like ArrayAdapter, CursorAdpter etc.

So now we will create a just simple Listview using ListActivity and we will bind data to Listview with the help of ArrayAdapter 

These are the basic steps to create a simple List

Step 1). Create one class to and extends ListActivity in-spite of activity

Step 2). Create one layout for row of Listview

 <TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"  
   xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"  
   android:id="@android:id/text1"  
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"  
   android:layout_height="60dp"  
   android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"  
   android:layout_centerVertical="true"  
   android:background="@android:color/white"  
   android:gravity="left|center_vertical"  
   android:padding="@dimen/padding_medium"  
   android:paddingLeft="10dp"  
   android:text="@string/hello_world"  
   android:textColor="@android:color/black"  
   android:textStyle="bold"  
   tools:context=".ListActivity" />  

Now you output will be like this screen shot 

Listview

Step 4) Binding Data to ListView

      private String item[] = { "This is list Item1", "This is list Item2",  
                "This is list Item3", "This is list Item4", "This is list Item5",  
                "This is list Item6" };  
      private void TakeOneArrayAdapterToaddData() {  
           ArrayAdapter<String> adpter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,  
                     R.layout.activity_list);  
           for (String str : item)  
                adpter.add(str);  
           getListView().setAdapter(adpter);  
      }  

Step 4) Performing click event on Listview's item 

set click listener on Listview and override method

      @Override  
      protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {  
           super.onListItemClick(l, v, position, id);  
           Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);  
           builder.setMessage(item[position] + " is clicked.");  
           builder.setPositiveButton("OK", null);  
           builder.show();  
      }  

Selected Item

                                                             

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