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:

<resources>
 <color name="sage">#cceebb</color>
</resources>

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:

<resources>
 <drawable name="sage">#cceebb</drawable>
</resources>

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);

Answer 2

To set divider in listview programatically:

These code put inside in your .java Class

   ListView lv = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.lv);
   lv.setDivider(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.drawable_divider));
   lv.setDividerHeight(1);

Creating Drawable: {res > drawable > drawable_divider.xml}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    android:shape="rectangle">

    <solid android:color="#ececec"></solid>

</shape>

Answer 3

Try this code:

searchText.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.wordColorBlack));
ListView lv = getListView();
lv.setDivider(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.divider2));
lv.setDividerHeight(2);