What is Android and what is an Android phone?

Android is now over five years old and despite the little green robot android peeking out of phone shops up and down the highstreet, there are still those who don’t know what it is or what it’s all about.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Android LIstView and Custom Adapter

Introduction This tutorial will show you how to use ListView to display selectable lists of non trivial data, using complex cell renderers. The ListView is a selectable list. You can attach a variety of data models to it and load different display layouts (cell renderers). You can create your own model and cell renderer. This model-view combo is called an Adapter. In this tutorial, I will show you how to extend create your own Adapter from scratch, and create your own cell renderers from scratch as well. What is a ListView? What’s the...