Android: Populating a listview with array items

Question

I'm new to Android and I think I'm trying to do something really basic: I have a 5 strings in my Array (say 'One', 'Two', ...). I want to add these 5 strings to my list view in my listactivity.

My List:

<ListView      android:id="@+id/android:list"     android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"/> </LinearLayout> 

My List Row:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:orientation="horizontal"> <TextView android:id="@+id/homeItemName"      android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:layout_weight="1"/> </LinearLayout> 

Basically, I want to bind the Array items to the TextView homeItemName. I might add other items in my row later, so I can't just bind the listview to the entries.

Thanks!

Answer 1

For code, take a quick look at this step-by-step tutorial

setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.list_item, COUNTRIES));   ListView lv = getListView(); 

It shows a basic implementation of an ArrayAdapter:

R.layout.list_item : is the xml layout (list_item.xml) that will be used for every ROW of your listview. COUNTRIES is the array of Strings.