What is the difference between ArrayAdapter , BaseAdapter and ListAdapter

BaseAdapter as the name suggests, is a base class for all the adapters. When you are extending the Base adapter class you need to implement all the methods like getCount(), getId() etc. ArrayAdapter is a class which can work with array of data. You need to override only getview() method. ListAdapter is a an interface … Read more

Redraw a single row in a listview [duplicate]

As Romain Guy explained a while back during the Google I/O session, the most efficient way to only update one view in a list view is something like the following (this one update the whole View data): ListView list = getListView(); int start = list.getFirstVisiblePosition(); for(int i=start, j=list.getLastVisiblePosition();i<=j;i++) if(target==list.getItemAtPosition(i)){ View view = list.getChildAt(i-start); list.getAdapter().getView(i, view, … Read more

Custom filtering in Android using ArrayAdapter

This fixed my problem. I’m not certain it’s the best solution, but it works. My project’s open-source, so feel free to use any of the code here should it prove usefull :-). package me.alxandr.android.mymir.adapters; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Collection; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.Set; import me.alxandr.android.mymir.R; import me.alxandr.android.mymir.model.Manga; import android.content.Context; import android.util.Log; import … Read more

What is the benefit of ViewHolder pattern in android?

Understand how listview recycling works How ListView’s recycling mechanism works You cannot recycle a row that is presently in use. The above link explains how listview recycling mechanism works So What is the benefit of using ViewHolder? Quoting docs Your code might call findViewById() frequently during the scrolling of ListView, which can slow down performance. … Read more

android: smoothScrollToPosition() not working correctly

You probably want to tell the ListView to post the scroll when the UI thread can handle it (which is why yours it not scrolling properly). SmoothScroll needs to do a lot of work, as opposed to just go to a position ignoring velocity/time/etc. (required for an “animation”). Therefore you should do something like: getListView().post(new … Read more

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