I have a ListFragment
that displays a list. All good. I wanted to put some well formatted textview preceding the list.
I tried creating a linear layout with a textview and adding it as a header to the list but it does not work.
The following does work:
TextView tv = new TextView(getActivity());
tv.setText(“Some title with comments”);
getListView().addHeaderView(tv);
tv.setGravity(Gravity.LEFT);
tv.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, 20);
I get the text before the list but I would like to actually set a layout instead as I would like text with 2 different fonts (it is like a title/caption with big font and a small description with smaller font).
How can I do that?
I don’t have any layout with list view defined. I only have a ListFragment
and my custom listAdapter
Update:
What I also tried and did not work:
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
this.headerView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.my_list_header, container, false);
return super.onCreateView(inflater, container, savedInstanceState);
}
And later when setting the adapter:
getListView().addHeaderView(this.headerView);
But I got exceptions
Here are the steps for properly adding a header in a ListFragment:
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View list_root = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_list, null);
// Get the list header - to be added later in the lifecycle
// during onActivityCreated()
mheaderView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.my_list_header, null);
return list_root;
}
@Override
public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
if (mheaderView != null) this.getListView().addHeaderView(headerView);
// Don't forget to now call setListAdapter()
this.setListAdapter(listAdapter);
}
@Override
public void onDestroyView()
{
super.onDestroyView();
// free adapter
setListAdapter(null);
}
You can create a custom view with the specifics you need, and then then, for the method "addHeaderView" you can assign you view.
eg:
View header = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.header, null);
ListView listView = getListView();
listView.addHeaderView(header);
setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_single_choice,android.R.id.text1, names));
In your adapter, inside your getView()
, you can load your header layout while position is 0
.
Check out my code.
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
if(position==0)
{
//view 1
}
else
{
Rest of the list elements
}
Write an ArrayAdapter extending ArrayAdapter
then do this inside getView method...
@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
Contact contact = getItem(position);
if (convertView == null) {
convertView = LayoutInflater.from(getContext()).inflate(R.layout.contact_list_item, parent, false);
}
//Do whatever u need to do with that View...
return convertView
}