Dynamic ListView Creation and Implementation Programatically in Android Application

Dynamic ListView

This blog describe about dynamic list view creation and implementation programatically in android apps. For this need to take array list and array adapter add item data list programatically . 

main.xml

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

    android:id="@+id/linearlayout"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:background="@android:color/background_dark"

    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:text="Dynamic List View"

        android:layout_marginTop="20dp"

        android:layout_gravity="center"

        android:textColor="#336633"

        android:textSize="20sp"

        android:textStyle="bold" />

    <Button

        android:id="@+id/button1"

        style="?android:attr/buttonStyleSmall"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_marginTop="20dp"

        android:layout_gravity="center"

        android:textStyle="bold"

        android:textSize="15sp"

        android:text="Show List View" />

</LinearLayout>

DynamicListViewActivity.java

package com.rakesh.tiwari.dynamiclistview;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.view.Menu;

import android.view.View;

import android.view.View.OnClickListener;

import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.LinearLayout;

import android.widget.LinearLayout.LayoutParams;

import android.widget.ListView;

public class DynamicListViewActivity extends Activity {

List<String>list;

Button btnShow;

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.main);

final LinearLayout linl=(LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.linearlayout);

btnShow=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);

final LinearLayout.LayoutParams linlayout=new LinearLayout.LayoutParams((int)LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,(int)LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);

linlayout.topMargin=10;

linlayout.leftMargin=40;

final ListView lv=new ListView(this);

list=new ArrayList<String>();

// Programatically add item data with array list.

list.add("C");

list.add("C++");

list.add("Java");

list.add("Android");

list.add("Blackberry");

list.add(".Net");

list.add("C#");

list.add("PHP");

btnShow.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

@Override

public void onClick(View v) {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

ArrayAdapter<String> adptr=new ArrayAdapter<String>(getApplicationContext(), android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line,list);

adptr.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_list_item_multiple_choice);

lv.setAdapter(adptr);

lv.setLayoutParams(linlayout);

linl.addView(lv);

}

});

}

@Override

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.

getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.dynamic_list_view, menu);

return true;

}

}

AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    package="com.rakesh.tiwari.dynamiclistview"

    android:versionCode="1"

    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk

        android:minSdkVersion="8"

        android:targetSdkVersion="18" />

    <application

        android:allowBackup="true"

        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"

        android:label="@string/app_name"

        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

        <activity

            android:screenOrientation="portrait"

            android:name="com.rakesh.tiwari.dynamiclistview.DynamicListViewActivity"

            android:label="@string/app_name" >

            <intent-filter>

                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

            </intent-filter>

        </activity>

    </application>

</manifest>

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