Remove ListView items in Android

Question

Can somebody please give me an example code of removing all ListView items and replacing with new items?

I tried replacing the adapter items without success. My code is

populateList(){

 results //populated arraylist with strings

 ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, results);

 listview.setAdapter(adapter);
 adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
 listview.setOnItemClickListener(this);

}

// now populating list again

repopulateList(){

 results1 //populated arraylist with strings

 ArrayAdapter<String> adapter1 = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, results1);

 listview.setAdapter(adapter1);
 adapter1.notifyDataSetChanged();
 listview.setOnItemClickListener(this);
}

Here repopulateList() method will add to ListView items, but it doesn't remove/replace all ListView items.

Answer 1

int count = adapter.getCount();
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
 adapter.remove(adapter.getItem(i));
}

then call notifyDataSetChanged();

Answer 2

You will want to remove() the item from your adapter object and then just run the notifyDatasetChanged() on the Adapter, any ListViews will (should) recycle and update on it's own.

Here's a brief activity example with AlertDialogs:

adapter = new MyListAdapter(this);
    lv = (ListView) findViewById(android.R.id.list);
    lv.setAdapter(adapter);
    lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> a, View v, int position, long id) {
        AlertDialog.Builder adb=new AlertDialog.Builder(MyActivity.this);
        adb.setTitle("Delete?");
        adb.setMessage("Are you sure you want to delete " + position);
        final int positionToRemove = position;
        adb.setNegativeButton("Cancel", null);
        adb.setPositiveButton("Ok", new AlertDialog.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                MyDataObject.remove(positionToRemove);
                adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
            }});
        adb.show();
        }
    });

Answer 3

Remove it from the adapter and then notify the arrayadapter that data set has changed.

m_adapter.remove(o);
m_adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

Answer 4

You can use

 lv.setAdapter(null);

Answer 5

I think if u add the following code, it will work

listview.invalidateViews();

To remove an item, Just remove that item from the arraylist that we passed to the adapter and do listview.invalidateViews();
This will refresh the listview

Answer 6

At first you should remove the item from your list. Later you may empty your adapter and refill it with new list.

private void add(final List<Track> trackList) {
    MyAdapter bindingData = new MyAdapter(MyActivity.this, trackList);

    list = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.my_list); // TODO

    list.setAdapter(bindingData);


    // Click event for single list row
    list.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
                final int position, long id) {
            // ShowPlacePref(places, position);
            AlertDialog.Builder showPlace = new AlertDialog.Builder(
                    Favoriler.this);
            showPlace.setMessage("Remove from list?");
            showPlace.setPositiveButton("DELETE", new OnClickListener() {
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {    

                    trackList.remove(position); //FIRST OF ALL REMOVE ITEM FROM LIST
                    list.setAdapter(null); // THEN EMPTY YOUR ADAPTER

                    add(trackList); // AT LAST REFILL YOUR LISTVIEW (Recursively)

                }

            });
            showPlace.setNegativeButton("CANCEL", new OnClickListener() {
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {

                }
            });
            showPlace.show();
        }

    });

}