android list inside layout

Question

i am working on an Android app that needs showing a list[table], inside the layout[view]

I come from iPhone dev objC land, and i have an app that shows a table[list] ins

Answer 1

Yes, of course, you can do that

1) you need to have listholder.xml here, you can scratch anything in you layout view, either imageview, textview..etc. just don't forget to add ListView inside it. for example:

2) For custom your own list item, you have to create listitem.xml i.e.

3) create customAdapter in your activity, it would look like this;

public class MyListActivity extends ListActivity {

private ArrayList yourdata = new ArrayList();
        @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.listholder);    
               // yourdata might be array, arraylist etc. 

               MyCustomAdapter listadapter = new MyCustomAdapter(this, R.layout.listitem, yourdata);

          setListAdapter(listadapter);
}

private class MyCustomAdapter extends ArrayAdapter{
                //this case, i use Yourdata as type
        private ArrayList items;

        public PreviousAdapter(Context context, int textViewResourceId,
                ArrayList items) {
            super(context, textViewResourceId, items);
            this.items = items;
        }

        @Override
        public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
            View v = convertView;
            if(v == null) {
                LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater)getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
                v = vi.inflate(R.layout.listitem, null);
            }
            Yourdata yt = items.get(position);
            if(yt != null){
             // Don't forget to use v.findView...., otherwise, it might force close when run app.
                TextView dateStr = (TextView)v.findViewById(R.id.date_value);

                    dateStr.setText(yt.getDate());
            }   
            return v;
        }



      }


}

P.S. the above code might not exactly right... just give you an idea :) Here is a source about custom list (you might have seen it) hope it useful

http://www.vogella.de/articles/AndroidListView/article.html