How to set the background colour of individual gridview cells

Question

I have a GridView with each cell containing some text, and I want to be able to set the background colour of individual cells.

The XML for my GridView is:

Answer 1

You need to create a custom layout and use it in your adapter instead of android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1. For example:

(I simply copied the latest version of simple_list_item_1.xml and added the new background color at the end.)

Save this as grid_layout.xml in res/layout and change your adapter's constructor to:

ArrayAdapter adapter = new ArrayAdapter(this, R.layout.grid_layout, student_array);