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Fancy ListViews, Part Six: Custom Widget
In this, the last and longest of our Fancy ListView posts, we’ll cover what it takes to wrap up the logic from the ChecklistDemo from a previous post and turn it into a reusable CheckListView that can serve as a drop-in replacement for ListView. Before …
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Fancy ListViews, Part Four
In our last episode, we took a closer look at the ViewHolder/ViewWrapper pattern for making ListViews that much more efficient to render. Today, we switch gears, and take a look at having interactive elements in ListView rows. Specifically, we’ll look at a crude implementation of …
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Fancy ListViews, Part Three
In our last episode, we saw how we could save processing time — and, hence, battery life — by recycling existing row views in our fancy lists, simply by checking and reusing the convertView parameter passed into our getView(). In his comment to this series’ …
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Fancy ListViews, Part Two
In our last episode, we saw how to create Android ListViews that contain more than just a simple list of strings. In particular, we saw the ultimate form of customization: subclassing an Adapter class, overriding getView(), and returning our own View for each row, perhaps …
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Fancy ListViews, Part One
The classic Android ListView is a plain list of text — solid but uninspiring. This is the first in a series of posts where we will see how to create a ListView with a bit more pizazz. Today, in particular, we will see two techniques …
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Inflation is a Good Thing
Before diving into the topic of creating fancy lists in Android, we need to take a short detour into some background material. If you have written activities for Android, you are used to calling setContentView() with the resource ID of some XML layout you specified. …
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