How do you dynamically add elements to a ListView on Android?

Question

Can anyone explain or suggest a tutorial to dynamically create a ListView in android?

Here are my requirements:

• I should be able to dynamically add new e

Answer 1

If you want to have the ListView in an AppCompatActivity instead of ListActivity, you can do the following (Modifying @Shardul's answer):

public class ListViewDemoActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    //LIST OF ARRAY STRINGS WHICH WILL SERVE AS LIST ITEMS
    ArrayList listItems=new ArrayList();

    //DEFINING A STRING ADAPTER WHICH WILL HANDLE THE DATA OF THE LISTVIEW
    ArrayAdapter adapter;

    //RECORDING HOW MANY TIMES THE BUTTON HAS BEEN CLICKED
    int clickCounter=0;
    private ListView mListView;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
        super.onCreate(icicle);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_list_view_demo);

        if (mListView == null) {
            mListView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listDemo);
        }

        adapter=new ArrayAdapter(this,
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,
                listItems);
        setListAdapter(adapter);
    }

    //METHOD WHICH WILL HANDLE DYNAMIC INSERTION
    public void addItems(View v) {
        listItems.add("Clicked : "+clickCounter++);
        adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
    }

    protected ListView getListView() {
        if (mListView == null) {
            mListView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listDemo);
        }
        return mListView;
    }

    protected void setListAdapter(ListAdapter adapter) {
        getListView().setAdapter(adapter);
    }

    protected ListAdapter getListAdapter() {
        ListAdapter adapter = getListView().getAdapter();
        if (adapter instanceof HeaderViewListAdapter) {
            return ((HeaderViewListAdapter)adapter).getWrappedAdapter();
        } else {
            return adapter;
        }
    }
}

And in you layout instead of using android:id="@android:id/list" you can use android:id="@+id/listDemo"

So now you can have a ListView inside a normal AppCompatActivity.