ListViews - how to use ArrayAdapter.addAll() function before API 11?

Question

I'm trying update a ListView with an entirely new ArrayList. For API 11 it works great using the addAll(...) method, but this is not available for earlier APIs. I can't figure out how to go about updating an entire list like this for older versions.

ArrayAdapter<String> textList = new ArrayAdapter<String>(listener, R.layout.list_item, stringList);
listener.setListAdapter(textList);

Then later...

textList.clear();
textList.addAll(stringList); <--- works fine for Android 3.0 (API Level 11) and beyond, but not before. 

How did you go about doing this before addAll() was introduced in API 11? Thanks.

Answer 1

Here's the full code block that uses the native addAll() for Android devices with SDK_INT >= 11, and uses the loop workaround for devices with API level less than 11.

@TargetApi(11)
public void setData(List<String> data) {
    clear();
    if (data != null) {
        //If the platform supports it, use addAll, otherwise add in loop
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
            addAll(data);
        } else {
            for(String item: data) {
                add(item);
            }
        }
    }
}

The @TargetApi(11) annotation is used with ADT 17 to suppress Lint warnings when you have a <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="X"/> in the AndroidManifest.xml where X is less than 11. See http://tools.android.com/recent/lintapicheck for more info.