Android Alternate row Colors in ListView

Question

public class ListView extends  ListActivity {

static String item;

public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
            super.onCreate(icicle);

            ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, Str.S);
            setListAdapter(adapter);

      }

This is my list view class which works nice and it takes the strings from a class called Str and display them in a listview, the problem is the listview style isn't nice, it's black with the strings in white.

I want them to be alternative each row has a color.

I tried many tutorials but none was clear enough .. How do I make Alternative Color for each row .. ex. row1 Blue, row 2 White, row 3 Blue, row 4 White, etc..

Answer 1

Here is how to do that.

My example code is given here in brief:

Override the getView method in your adapter:

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {  
View view = super.getView(position, convertView, parent);  
if (position % 2 == 1) {
    view.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);  
} else {
    view.setBackgroundColor(Color.CYAN);  
}

return view;  
}

Override ArrayAdapter and override getView method there.

So if your adapter is something like this:

public class MyAdapter extends ArrayAdapter

Your ListActivity will change like this:

 ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new MyAdapter<String>(this,
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, Str.S);

Here's an example about overriding ArrayAdapter.

Answer 2

if (position % 2 == 0) {

    rowView.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#A4A4A4"));

} else {

    rowView.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#FFBF00"));

}

Answer 3

The Background color for a custom listview row can be set with

row.setBackgroundResource(R.color.list_bg_2)

method in custom listview adapter in

getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)

I have tried many things like row.setBackgroundColor(0xFF00DD) but couldn't get it done,

here list_bg_2 is a color set res/values/color.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <color name="list_bg_1">#ffffff</color>
    <color name="list_bg_2">#fef2e8</color>
</resources>