How to refresh Android listview?

Question

How to refresh an Android ListView after adding/deleting dynamic data?

Answer 1

Just use myArrayList.remove(position); inside a listener:

  myListView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, android.view.View view, int position, long id) {
           myArrayList.remove(position);
           myArrayAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
        }
    });

Answer 2

I was not able to get notifyDataSetChanged() to work on updating my SimpleAdapter, so instead I tried first removing all views that were attached to the parent layout using removeAllViews(), then adding the ListView, and that worked, allowing me to update the UI:

LinearLayout results = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.results);
ListView lv = new ListView(this);
ArrayList<HashMap<String,String>> list = new ArrayList<HashMap<String,String>>();
SimpleAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter( this, list, R.layout.directory_row, 
                new String[] { "name", "dept" }, new int[] { R.id.name, R.id.dept } );

for (...) { 
    HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
    map.put("name", name);
    map.put("dept", dept);
    list.add(map);
}

lv.setAdapter(adapter);
results.removeAllViews();     
results.addView(lv);

Answer 3

If you want to maintain your scroll position when you refresh, and you can do this:

if (mEventListView.getAdapter() == null) {
    EventLogAdapter eventLogAdapter = new EventLogAdapter(mContext, events);
    mEventListView.setAdapter(eventLogAdapter);
} else {
    ((EventLogAdapter)mEventListView.getAdapter()).refill(events);
}

public void refill(List<EventLog> events) {
    mEvents.clear();
    mEvents.addAll(events);
    notifyDataSetChanged();
}

For the detail information, please see Android ListView: Maintain your scroll position when you refresh.

Answer 4

If you are going by android guide lines and you are using the ContentProviders to get data from Database and you are displaying it in the ListView using the CursorLoader and CursorAdapters ,then you all changes to the related data will automatically be reflected in the ListView.

Your getContext().getContentResolver().notifyChange(uri, null); on the cursor in the ContentProvider will be enough to reflect the changes .No need for the extra work around.

But when you are not using these all then you need to tell the adapter when the dataset is changing. Also you need to re-populate / reload your dataset (say list) and then you need to call notifyDataSetChanged() on the adapter.

notifyDataSetChanged()wont work if there is no the changes in the datset. Here is the comment above the method in docs-

/**
 * Notifies the attached observers that the underlying data has been changed
 * and any View reflecting the data set should refresh itself.
 */

Answer 5

Call runnable whenever you want:

runOnUiThread(run);

OnCreate(), you set your runnable thread:

run = new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        //reload content
        arraylist.clear();
        arraylist.addAll(db.readAll());
        adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
        listview.invalidateViews();
        listview.refreshDrawableState();
    }
};

Answer 6

For me after changing information in sql database nothing could refresh list view( to be specific expandable list view) so if notifyDataSetChanged() doesn't help, you can try to clear your list first and add it again after that call notifyDataSetChanged(). For example

private List<List<SomeNewArray>> arrayList;
List<SomeNewArray> array1= getArrayList(...);
List<SomeNewArray> array2= getArrayList(...);
arrayList.clear();
arrayList.add(array1);
arrayList.add(array2);
notifyDataSetChanged();

Hope it makes sense for you.