How to extract the text from the selected item on the listView

Question

I have a listview with some items. I would like to get the text from the selected item.

Here is my list adapter and the onItemClickListener:

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Answer 1

Here's for future reference for anyone that stumbles on this. In my case I had a custom adapter class, with type as a POJO class I had. Also the items I wanted to pass to the adapter and display in my ListView where of the util.List class.

I successfully passed the data to the ListView, but also wanted to get the text of the currently selected.

Eg: the data I passed was a list of schools that a lecturer taught at, so he had to select the particular school he wanted to work with at that time, and on logging in I wanted to pass an intent to a new Activity with the current school the lecturer had selected.

Thus my ListView onClick():

private void loginSuccess() {
    progressDialog.dismiss();
    if (mySchoolsList.size() > 1) {
        schoolsListView = new ListView(MainActivity.this);
        schoolsArrayAdapter = new SchoolListAdapter(MainActivity.this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, mySchoolsList);
        schoolsListView.setAdapter(schoolsArrayAdapter);

        dialog = new Dialog(MainActivity.this);
        dialog.setContentView(schoolsListView);
        dialog.setTitle("Welcome " + staff.getFullName());
        dialog.show();


        schoolsListView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                //the .getName() is accessed from the School POJO class.
                String schoolName = schoolsArrayAdapter.getItem(position).getName();
                intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, NavMainActivity.class);
                intent.putExtra("sentIntent", schoolName);
                startActivity(intent);
            }
        });

    } else {
        intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, NavMainActivity.class);
        intent.putExtra("sentIntent", recieveName);
        startActivity(intent);
    }
}

Hope this saves someone someday, because all the solutions here didn't work for me. Cheers!

Answer 2

It will definitly works!Hope you Satisfied!

ListView lv=(ListView)findViewById(R.id.listView1);

lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2,
            long arg3) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        String text = (String) lv.getItemAtPosition(arg2);
        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), text, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

    }
});

Answer 3

Try this code:

listView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
     @Override
     public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
         Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),(String)parent.getItemAtPosition(position),Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
     }
});

Answer 4

public void onItemClick(**AdapterView**<?> parent, View view, 
                                            int position, long id) {

 }

See the AdapterView.....--->>>the class

Only need to do this :

  TextView selectedText=(TextView) parent.findViewById(R.id.textView2);

See...you get the TextView directly

Answer 5

Hello I'm using a CustomListView with Registered Context Menu. In this case the way to access a item inside a custom list row will be:

@Override
public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    AdapterView.AdapterContextMenuInfo info = (AdapterView.AdapterContextMenuInfo) item.getMenuInfo();
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.add:
                TextView textView = (TextView) info.targetView.findViewById(R.id.yourItem);
                String text = textView.getText().toString();
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Selected " + text, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); 
        default:
                return super.onContextItemSelected(item);
    }
}

Where R.id.yourItem is the textView inside the custom Row

PS: It's my first post, Hope it helps ;-)

Answer 6

For this you need to write the following:

lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
        int position, long id) {
        TextView textView = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.list_content);
        String text = lv.get(position).toString().trim();
        System.out.println("Chosen Country = : " + text);

}});