ListView using ListActivity

List View example in android/ program to create listview,simple listview/Listview using list activity/listview  tutorials

The display of elements in a list is a very common pattern in mobile applications. The user gets a list of items and can scroll through them. If he selects one item this usually triggers something else. ListView is one of Android's most widely used widgets. It is capable of displaying a scrollable list of items. These items can be of any type. The data to the ListView will be provided by ListAdapter

To add ListView to any activity, we have to include <ListView> tag to the activity’s layout xml. The Activity class that uses ListView should implement the ListActivity instead of plain Activity class.

ListView using ListActivity

1.      Create your activity class by extending ListActivity instead of extending Activity

public classHelloListactivityActivity extends ListActivity {

2.      Create a String array that will be placed in the ListView

   String androidphones[]={"Sony Ericson Xperia","Motorola Droid", "Samsung Galaxy","HTC Sensation","LG Nitro","Google Nexus"};

3.      Use Array Adapter to list the data

setListAdapter(newArrayAdapter<String>(this,

                  android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,androidphones));

4.      Item click on ListView

public voidonListItemClick(ListView lv,View v,int position, long id)

   {

      super.onListItemClick(lv, v, position, id);

5.      Get  name of clicked item

String item=getListView().getItemAtPosition(position).toString();

Full Source code 

Result

ListView with images

main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:orientation="vertical"     android:layout_width="fill_parent"     android:layout_height="fill_parent"     > <LinearLayout android:layout_height="70dip" android:id="@+id/linearLayout1" android:layout_width="match_parent">     <TextView     android:text="TextView"     android:layout_width="200dip"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:id="@+id/textView1">     </TextView>     <ImageView     android:src="@drawable/icon"     android:id="@+id/imageView1"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:layout_width="wrap_content">     </ImageView> </LinearLayout> </LinearLayout>

HelloListactivityActivity.java

package hello.list.activity; import android.app.Activity; import android.app.ListActivity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.View; import android.widget.ArrayAdapter; import android.widget.ListView; import android.widget.Toast; public class HelloListactivityActivity extends ListActivity {     /** Called when the activity is first created. */     @Override     public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)     {         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);                 String androidphones[]={"Sony Ericson Xperia","Motorola Droid",                   "Samsung Galaxy","HTC Sensation","LG Nitro","Google Nexus"};                 setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,                   R.layout.main,R.id.textView1,androidphones));         }     public void onListItemClick(ListView lv,View v,int position, long id)     {       super.onListItemClick(lv, v, position, id);       String item=getListView().getItemAtPosition(position).toString();       Toast.makeText(this, item, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();     } }

Result 

Custom ListView 
GridView
CustomGridView 

Tab Activity
Custom Spinner