Custom Listview Adapter with filter Android

Question

Please am trying to implement a filter on my listview. But whenever the text change, the list disappears.Please Help Here are my codes. The adapter class.

package com.talagbe.schymn;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import android.content.Context;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class HymnsAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Hymns> {
ArrayList<Hymns> hymnarray;
Context context;
LayoutInflater inflater;
int Resource;


public HymnsAdapter(Context context, int resource, ArrayList<Hymns> objects) {
    super(context, resource, objects);
    // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub

    hymnarray=objects;
    Resource= resource;
    this.context=context;
    inflater= (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
}


@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
     ViewHolder holder;
     if(convertView==null){

         convertView= inflater.inflate(Resource,null);
         holder= new ViewHolder();
         holder.hymntitle= (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.Hymn_title);
        // holder.hymntext= (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.Channel_name);


         convertView.setTag(holder);

     }else{
         holder=(ViewHolder)convertView.getTag();
     }

     holder.hymntitle.setText(hymnarray.get(position).getTitle());
     //holder.hymntext.setText(hymnarray.get(position).getText());

    return convertView;


}


   static class ViewHolder{

    public TextView hymntitle;
    public TextView hymntext;

}

 }

Here is the other class where am trying to implement the filter. I have an edittext,where i implement on textChangeListener

package com.talagbe.schymn;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import database.DatabaseHelper;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.text.Editable;
import android.text.TextWatcher;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;

 public class Home extends Fragment {

    private static final String DB_NAME = "schymn.sqlite";
    private static final String TABLE_NAME = "Hymns";
    private static final String Hymn_ID = "_id";
    private static final String Hymn_Title = "Title";
    private static final String Hymn_Text = "Text";
    private SQLiteDatabase database;

ListView list;
EditText search;
HymnsAdapter vadapter;
ArrayList<Hymns> HymnsList;
String url;
Context context=null;


public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
        Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
      return inflater.inflate(R.layout.index, container,false);
}


@Override
public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    list = (ListView)getActivity().findViewById(R.id.hymn_list);
    search = (EditText) getActivity().findViewById(R.id.search);
    HymnsList = new ArrayList<Hymns>();

    DatabaseHelper dbOpenHelper = new DatabaseHelper(getActivity(), DB_NAME);
    database = dbOpenHelper.openDataBase();

    fillHymns();
    //setUpList();

}



private void fillHymns() {
    Cursor hymnCursor = database.query(TABLE_NAME,
                                         new String[] 
                                         {Hymn_ID, Hymn_Title,Hymn_Text},
                                         null, null, null, null
                                         , Hymn_Title);
    hymnCursor.moveToFirst();
    if(!hymnCursor.isAfterLast()) {
        do {
            Hymns hy = new Hymns();
            hy.setTitle(hymnCursor.getString(1));
            hy.setText(hymnCursor.getString(2));
            HymnsList.add(hy);

        } while (hymnCursor.moveToNext());
    }
    hymnCursor.close();
     vadapter = new HymnsAdapter(getActivity().getApplicationContext(),R.layout.hymns,HymnsList);
    list.setAdapter(vadapter);

    list.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
                int position, long id) {

            Intent intent = new Intent(getActivity().getApplicationContext(), Hymn_Text.class);
            intent.putExtra("Title",HymnsList.get(position).getTitle());
            intent.putExtra("Text",HymnsList.get(position).getText());
            startActivity(intent);
            //Log.i("Text",HymnsList.get(position).getText());

        }








    });


    search.addTextChangedListener( new TextWatcher() {

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence cs, int start, int before, int count) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            if(count>0){


            }

        }

        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
                int after) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
             Home.this.vadapter.getFilter().filter(s);
                Log.i("Changed",s.toString());
        }
    });
}




  }

The log,logs whatever input i type in,but doesn't show the listview. Thank you

Answer 1

You can use the Filterable interface on your Adapter, have a look at the example below:

public class SearchableAdapter extends BaseAdapter implements Filterable {
    
    private List<String>originalData = null;
    private List<String>filteredData = null;
    private LayoutInflater mInflater;
    private ItemFilter mFilter = new ItemFilter();
    
    public SearchableAdapter(Context context, List<String> data) {
        this.filteredData = data ;
        this.originalData = data ;
        mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
    }
 
    public int getCount() {
        return filteredData.size();
    }
 
    public Object getItem(int position) {
        return filteredData.get(position);
    }
 
    public long getItemId(int position) {
        return position;
    }
 
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        // A ViewHolder keeps references to children views to avoid unnecessary calls
        // to findViewById() on each row.
        ViewHolder holder;
 
        // When convertView is not null, we can reuse it directly, there is no need
        // to reinflate it. We only inflate a new View when the convertView supplied
        // by ListView is null.
        if (convertView == null) {
            convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.list_item, null);
 
            // Creates a ViewHolder and store references to the two children views
            // we want to bind data to.
            holder = new ViewHolder();
            holder.text = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.list_view);
 
            // Bind the data efficiently with the holder.
 
            convertView.setTag(holder);
        } else {
            // Get the ViewHolder back to get fast access to the TextView
            // and the ImageView.
            holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
        }
 
        // If weren't re-ordering this you could rely on what you set last time
        holder.text.setText(filteredData.get(position));
 
        return convertView;
    }
    
    static class ViewHolder {
        TextView text;
    }
 
    public Filter getFilter() {
        return mFilter;
    }
 
    private class ItemFilter extends Filter {
        @Override
        protected FilterResults performFiltering(CharSequence constraint) {
            
            String filterString = constraint.toString().toLowerCase();
            
            FilterResults results = new FilterResults();
            
            final List<String> list = originalData;
 
            int count = list.size();
            final ArrayList<String> nlist = new ArrayList<String>(count);
 
            String filterableString ;
            
            for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
                filterableString = list.get(i);
                if (filterableString.toLowerCase().contains(filterString)) {
                    nlist.add(filterableString);
                }
            }
            
            results.values = nlist;
            results.count = nlist.size();
 
            return results;
        }
 
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        @Override
        protected void publishResults(CharSequence constraint, FilterResults results) {
            filteredData = (ArrayList<String>) results.values;
            notifyDataSetChanged();
        }
 
    }
}

In your Activity or Fragment where of Adapter is instantiated :

editTxt.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
  
    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {
        System.out.println("Text ["+s+"]");
        
        mSearchableAdapter.getFilter().filter(s.toString());                           
    }
     
    @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count,
            int after) {
         
    }
     
    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
    }
});

Here are the links for the original source and another example

Answer 2

I hope it will be helpful for others.

// put below code (method) in Adapter class
public void filter(String charText) {
    charText = charText.toLowerCase(Locale.getDefault());
    myList.clear();
    if (charText.length() == 0) {
        myList.addAll(arraylist);
    }
    else
    {
        for (MyBean wp : arraylist) {
            if (wp.getName().toLowerCase(Locale.getDefault()).contains(charText)) {
                myList.add(wp);
            }
        }
    }
    notifyDataSetChanged();
}

declare below code in adapter class

private ArrayList<MyBean> myList;  // for loading main list
private ArrayList<MyBean> arraylist=null;  // for loading  filter data

below code in adapter Constructor

this.arraylist = new ArrayList<MyBean>();
    this.arraylist.addAll(myList);

and below code in your activity class

final EditText searchET = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.search_et);
    // Capture Text in EditText
    searchET.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable arg0) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            String text = searchET.getText().toString().toLowerCase(Locale.getDefault());
            adapter.filter(text);
        }

        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1,
                                      int arg2, int arg3) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        }

        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1, int arg2,
                                  int arg3) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        }
    });