Hello,
I'm running into difficulties overriding an ArrayAdapter to be
displayed in a ListActivity.
The ArrayAdapter is filled asynchronously.
What I'm trying to do is add a special "sentinel" object that sits at
the beginning of the list to show the progress of the computation.
Ultimately this may be a progress bar, but right now I am just using a
TextView as a placeholder.
The problem is that the sentinel seems to get inserted multiple times
into the list - not just once at the beginning. It *seems* to be
appearing once per "page" of list data (so if 8 list items fit on the
screen, my sentinel appears as the 1st, then 9th, then the 17th,
etc..), but that interpretation may not be accurate.
While maybe not how ArrayAdapters were intended to be extended, I
thought something like this should work by simply overriding getView()
to show my custom TextView for index 0:
public class CustomAdapter<E> extends ArrayAdapter<E> {
private View sentinel;
public CustomAdapter(Context context, int textViewResourceId, List<E>
objects) {
super(context, textViewResourceId, objects);
sentinel = new TextView(context);
((TextView)sentinel).setText("Still Loading..");
}
@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
{
if(position == 0)
return sentinel;
return super.getView(position, convertView, parent);
}
public void finish() {
//called when async list computation finishes
remove(getItem(0));
}
}
The adapter is created in the usual way:
...
ArrayList<String> data = new ArrayList<String>();
data.add('****'); //item 0, this should get replaced
adapter = new CustomAdapter<String>(this,
android.R.layout.simple_expandable_list_item_1, data);
adapter.add("Sentinel");
setListAdapter(adapter);
...
My two guesses so far are: 1) When data is added asynchronously,
something goes wrong with redrawing the list view. 2) I'm not
correctly interpreting the "position" parameter of "getView()".
Any suggestions on why this doesn't work?
Thanks for reading folks.
- C
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