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Retaining position in ListView after calling notifyDataSetChanged
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I have a listView and I want to add new items to the top of the list view but I dont want list view to scroll its content. I want user to look at the same item as he was looking before new items were added.
This is how I add new items to ListView:
this.commentsListViewAdapter.addRangeToTop(comments);
this.commentsListViewAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
and this is addRangeToTop
method:
public void addRangeToTop(ArrayList<Comment> comments)
{
for (Comment comment : comments)
{
this.insert(comment, 0);
}
}
this is my listView:
<ListView
android:id="@+id/CommentsListView"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_above="@+id/AddCommentLayout"
android:stackFromBottom="true" >
</ListView>
What I want to do is to load old comments when user scrolls to the top.
Thank you for your help.
I have found solution here Retaining position in ListView after calling notifyDataSetChanged
Sorry for duplicate question.
The final code is this:
int index = this.commentsListView.getFirstVisiblePosition() + comments.size();
View v = this.commentsListView.getChildAt(commentsListView.getHeaderViewsCount());
int top = (v == null) ? 0 : v.getTop();
this.commentsListViewAdapter.AddRangeToTop(comments);
this.commentsListViewAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
this.commentsListView.setSelectionFromTop(index, top);
May be this is what you are looking for:
android:transcriptMode="normal"
"This makes list automatically scroll to the bottom when a data set change notification is received and only if the last item is already visible on screen." - as quoted here
Also have a look at ListView's method public void setSelection (int position)
. After you added new comments, and notified your adapter, you can use it to keep the current item selected.
// Get the current selected index
int previousSelectedIndex = yourListView.getSelectedItemPosition();
// Change your adapter
this.commentsListViewAdapter.AddRangeToTop(comments);
this.commentsListViewAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
// Determine how many elements you just inserted
int numberOfInsertedItems = comments.size();
// Update the selected position
yourListView.setSelection(previousSelectedIndex + numberOfInsertedItems);
NOTE: Code is untested. Good luck