How to create a closed (circular) ListView?

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My colleague Joe, and I believe we have found a simpler way to solve the same problem. In our solution though instead of extending BaseAdapter we extend ArrayAdapter.

The code is as follows : 

public class CircularArrayAdapter< T > extends ArrayAdapter< T >
{   

        public static final int HALF_MAX_VALUE = Integer.MAX_VALUE/2;
        public final int MIDDLE;
        private T[] objects;

        public CircularArrayAdapter(Context context, int textViewResourceId, T[] objects)
        {
            super(context, textViewResourceId, objects);
            this.objects = objects;
            MIDDLE = HALF_MAX_VALUE - HALF_MAX_VALUE % objects.length;
        }

        @Override
        public int getCount()
        {
            return Integer.MAX_VALUE;
        }

        @Override
        public T getItem(int position) 
        {
            return objects[position % objects.length];
        }
 }

So this creates a class called CircularArrayAdapter which take an object type T (which may be anything) and uses it to create an array list. T is commonly a string though may be anything.

The constructor is the same as is for ArrayAdapter though initializes a constant called middle. This is the middle of the list. No matter what the length of the array MIDDLE can be used to center the ListView in the mid of the list.

getCount() is overrides to return a huge value as is done above creating a huge list.

getItem() is overrides to return the fake position on the array. Thus when filling the list the list is filled with objects in a looping manner.

At this point CircularArrayAdapter simply replaces ArrayAdapter in the file creating the ListView.

To centre the ListView the fallowing line must be inserted in your file creating the ListView after the ListView object has been initialised:

listViewObject.setSelectionFromTop(nameOfAdapterObject.MIDDLE, 0);

and using the MIDDLE constant previously initialized for the list the view is centered with the top item of the list at the top of the screen.

: ) ~ Cheers, I hope this solution is useful.

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