Add extra element to cursor adapter android

Question

I have a Cursor that contains all rows from my database. That Cursor I pass to a CursorAdapter, and display the data in a list. But I need to show one extra element in the beginning. How can I do that?

I read somewhere that maybe it can be done with a CursorWrapper, and it can inject extra values into the results. But I'm not quite sure how to do that.

If someone can show me an example (code), or have another idea how to solve this, please let me know. Thx!

Answer 1

How about using a combination of MergeCursor and MatrixCursor as I've suggested in this question: How to insert extra elements into a SimpleCursorAdapter or Cursor for a Spinner?

Answer 2

Override getCount like this:

@Override
public int getCount() {
    final int count = super.getCount();
    return count+1;
}

and who ever uses the adapter gets one extra row. Just remember to handle this in getView ie.

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        if(position == 0) {
            final View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.special_suggestion, parent,false);
            final TextView tv = (TextView) v.findViewById(android.R.id.text1);
            tv.setText("Search for '" + this.keyword + "'");
            return v;
        }
        else {
            try {
                return super.getView(position, convertView, parent);
            }
            catch (IllegalStateException e) {
                Log.e(TAG, "IllegalStateException: " + e);
            }
        }
        return inflater.inflate(this.layout, parent,false);
    }