simplecursoradapter

I know you can create a custom Adapter extending BaseAdapter and create various layouts which can be inflated depending on which row the AdapterView is at.. But is there any way to get a simple amount of customization with a SimpleCursorAdapter ? Eg. I have a database and I would like to query it and return the results to a ListView with alternating row layouts. Will SimpleCursorAdapter do? Or are there any elegant solutions for this? Cheers But is there any way to get a simple amount of customization with a SimpleCursorAdapter? Just like BaseAdapter, you can extend CursorAdapter or

I have a view that contains a ListView which is binded to a cursor adapter. When The cursor content change I want to keep the ListView at the top then in my custom cursor adapter I added : @Override protected void onContentChanged() { // ... myListView.scrollTo(0, 0); } but this doesn't work. Then I read somewhere to queue this action like this : myListView.post(new Runnable() { public void run() { myListView.scrollTo(0, 0); } }); but this doesn't work either. How can I keep the ListView at the top when its content changes? EDIT: Just for try, I added a button and called scrollTo() in its

I have a sqlite database in my application. I want to make an expandable list view with that. I am fixed with the approach I should take for that. Tried a lot to find a tutorial for the same, but could not find a single one, where one is populating the Expandable list with the local database. There is this one tutorial in the android site where they are filling the expandable list with the Contact detail in the phone. They are doing this from the content provider ExpandableList2.java So my question is should I also create a content provider for my database which is inside my own application ?

I'm using a SimpleCursorAdapter to display results in a ListView but since I've got to query my database lots of times during a search (using the SearchView widget) it worries me that the cursor might be left opened. This is how I query my database and show the results in a ListView: class SearchCustomers extends AsyncTask<String,Void,Cursor>{ @Override protected Cursor doInBackground(String... params) { //get the query String query=params[0].toLowerCase(Locale.getDefault()); Cursor cursor=mDB.searchCustomersByName((query != null ? query : "@@@@")); return cursor; } @Override protected void

I am fetching Genre list from media content Provider of android using CursorLoder class. below is my cursor query to fetch the list of Genre. public Loader<Cursor> onCreateLoader(int id, Bundle args) { // currently filtering. Uri baseUri; baseUri = MediaStore.Audio.Genres.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI; String[] STAR = { "*" }; return new CursorLoader(getActivity(), baseUri, STAR, null, null, null ); } Now, i got all the genre list from the media content provider but the problem with the data i got. I also got the genre name which is created before but right now i don't have song in it. I only want the

I have 1-50 records in the database. I am fetching those data using cursor and set those values to Spinner using Simple Cursor Adapter. Now what i need is i want to set one value say 39th value as default. But not by its position i want to set by its value. I know how to set the spinner default by its position spinner.setSelection(39) will set the spinner to that value. But i didn't have any idea about setting the spinner default by its value(text) in the database. I know the values in the database. For eg "books" is one of the value in the spinner. I need to set the spinner default as books.

I have two xml files one is having the listview and another is having the layout of the listview vth some texviews, I want to change the color of the textview in the second xml file. This is what i have done so far. main1.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:paddingTop="4px"> <ListView droid:id="@android:id/list" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_below="