How to fill a ListView with a string-array?

Question

I want to show these itens at my ListView

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Answer 1

You can do this with an ArrayAdapter and have it use either an Array or a List to give it data

lv.setAdatper(new ArrayAdapter<String>(context, R.layout.some_layout_to_use, R.id.some_textview_in_layout, listData);

Answer 2

You can create your adapter with a one liner, check out the static method ArrayAdapter createFromResource(Context context, int textArrayResId, int textViewResId)

The first argument will probably be your Activity, the second is R.array.bookmark_titles, and the third is a layout to use.

To clarify based on the comments, the method accepts int, which is exactly what the constants in your generated R class are stored as.

Here's a complete example, assuming this is being called from an Activity:

ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> aa = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this, R.array.bookmark_titles, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1);
myListView.setAdapter(aa);

In this case, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1 refers to an XML layout that is provided by the Android SDK. You can change this if needed.