How to create custom BaseAdapter for AutoCompleteTextView

The following is my working code using ArrayAdapter. Let’s assume the reponse data from web service looks like the following: [ { “id”: “1”, “name”: “Information Technology” }, { “id”: “2”, “name”: “Human Resources” }, { “id”: “3”, “name”: “Marketing and PR” }, { “id”: “4”, “name”: “Research and Developement” } ] Then in your … Read more

AutoCompleteTextView not completing words inside parentheses

An answer, provided by @BNK, is correct. However, I would like to give a similar solution, which doesn’t require the whole ArrayAdapter class file. Instead, we will just extend that class and override its only 2 methods: getView() and getFilter(). So, define your AutoSuggestAdapter class: import android.content.Context; import android.view.LayoutInflater; import android.view.View; import android.view.ViewGroup; import android.widget.ArrayAdapter; … Read more

OnItemClickListener using ArrayAdapter for ListView

Use OnItemClickListener ListView lv = getListView(); lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() { @Override public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapter, View v, int position, long arg3) { String value = (String)adapter.getItemAtPosition(position); // assuming string and if you want to get the value on click of list item // do what you intend to do on click of listview row } }); … Read more

ArrayAdapter.NotifyDataSetChanged() is not working?

notifyDataSetChanged() won’t work for you. Reasons why Your adapter loses reference to your list. Always creating and adding a new list to the Adapter. Do like this: initialize the ArrayList while declaring globally. ArrayList<MyItemType> myArrayList=new ArrayList<>(); // as a global variable Add List to the adapter directly without checking null and empty condition. Set the … Read more

Android listview using ViewHolder

Change your code at below. I think you’re missing that. public class AlphabeticalAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String> { int layoutResourceId; private final Context context; private List<String> data; private List<String> tags; private ProgressDialog mProgressDialog; private ImageView downloadImageButton; public AlphabeticalAdapter(Context context, int resource, List<String> data) { super(context, resource, data); this.layoutResourceId = resource; this.context = context; this.data = data; tags … Read more

Redraw a single row in a listview [duplicate]

As Romain Guy explained a while back during the Google I/O session, the most efficient way to only update one view in a list view is something like the following (this one update the whole View data): ListView list = getListView(); int start = list.getFirstVisiblePosition(); for(int i=start, j=list.getLastVisiblePosition();i<=j;i++) if(target==list.getItemAtPosition(i)){ View view = list.getChildAt(i-start); list.getAdapter().getView(i, view, … Read more

What is the benefit of ViewHolder pattern in android?

Understand how listview recycling works How ListView’s recycling mechanism works You cannot recycle a row that is presently in use. The above link explains how listview recycling mechanism works So What is the benefit of using ViewHolder? Quoting docs Your code might call findViewById() frequently during the scrolling of ListView, which can slow down performance. … Read more