Changing a divider with setDivider in a ListActivity without a custom ListView?

Question

I can\'t seem to get a customized divider, using a Drawable I\'ve defined, to work when using a ListActivity and not creating a custom ListView. It al

Answer 1

I figured it out. The issue had nothing to do with the ListActivity generating a ListView for me. It was in how I was defining the divider in Java code.

There are two ways that I see to define the divider (border between ListView rows) on a ListView that is automatically inflated from a ListActivity, if you want to define the color in XML:

Method 1:

In res/values/colors.xml, put the following:

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In your ListActivity-extending class, do this:

ListView lv = getListView();
ColorDrawable sage = new ColorDrawable(this.getResources().getColor(R.color.sage));
lv.setDivider(sage);
lv.setDividerHeight(1);

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Method 2:

In res/values/colors.xml:

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And in your class that extends ListActivity:

ListView lv = getListView();
ColorDrawable sage = new ColorDrawable(this.getResources().getColor(R.drawable.sage));
lv.setDivider(sage);
lv.setDividerHeight(1);