For anyone looking to dynamically add a header to a sorted cursor in a list, Kostya's suggestion worked brilliantly. In getView override check the column value you're sorting on of the previous cursor position to determine if you need to use a regular row or a view which contains both a header *and* a row layout.
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Connick <oconn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm with you on that ...re: header part of hierarchy, that's the direction > I'm going but I was worried about position mapping ...you're suggestion to > include the header view with a row item would solve that problem! > Gracias, will give that a shot. > > Cheers > S > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Kostya Vasilyev <kmans...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> It does on my phone - Samsung Galaxy S with Android 2.1update1. This is >> the built-in Android email client, set up with an IMAP account. >> >> I just had an idea. >> >> It should be much easier to implement the header as part of data item view >> hierarchy. This way the number of items in the list view is exactly the same >> as the number of items in the cursor, and you can avoid extra code dealing >> with counting data items and mapping their positions. >> >> You'd have two kinds of list item views - one with the header, one >> without. Deciding which one to use is pretty simple - in the adapter's >> getView, compare the item's data with the previous item's. If they differ, >> you need to use the version with the header. >> >> -- Kostya >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
