Within a ListView, why do I keep getting the value of the first row instead of the selected row?

Question

In my android app I have the following code:

public void goToCaptureBonus (View View) {
        String tappedBonus = ((TextView) findViewById(R.id.bonusListCode)         


        

Answer 1

In case of ListView you should use OnItemClickListener. Here is an example how to do this.

listView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
        //use the position variable to get the list item from the list
        String selection = itemsArray[position]; // this will give the selected item 
    }
});

Now whenever an item on your ListView is tapped, the method onItemClick() is called. And here you can get the selection.

Answer 2

The documentation of findViewById() says

Finds the first descendant view with the given ID, ...

Is it possible that you are using findViewById() from the context of the activity or the the general list view and not of the selected (tapped on) view?

If the view parameter of your function is the tapped on view, you should probably do:

view.findViewById(R.id.bonusListCode)

instead of just

findViewById(R.id.bonusListCode)