Saturday, June 12, 2010

ListView, with icon

Last exercise display a ListView in simplest form with plain text only. This exercise describe how to add a icon in ListView.

ListView, with icon

create a new file in /res/layout/row.xml, to setup our layout on each row.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/icon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="@drawable/icon"/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/weekofday"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>


AndroidList.java
package com.exercise.AndroidList;

import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;

public class AndroidList extends ListActivity {

String[] DayOfWeek = {"Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday",
"Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"
};

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
//setContentView(R.layout.main);
setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
R.layout.row, R.id.weekofday, DayOfWeek));
}
}



next: Implement onListItemClick() of ListActivity


Related article:
- Custom Spinner with icon

3 comments:

Unknown said...

How do I make it work with a real spinner?

Say I've got a spinner in my layout and I want it to look like this when you click it. how do I do that??

Erik said...

hello Hila,

Please refer to Custom Spinner with icon

Abuzer said...

thanks