Android Programming Tutorials

Making Our List Be Fancy

address.setText(r.getAddress());

if (r.getType().equals("sit_down")) {

icon.setImageResource(R.drawable.ball_red);

}

else if (r.getType().equals("take_out")) {

icon.setImageResource(R.drawable.ball_yellow);

}

else {

icon.setImageResource(R.drawable.ball_green);

}

}

}

}

Rebuild and reinstall the application, then try adding several restaurants

and confirm that, when the list is scrolled, everything appears as it should –

the name, address, and icon all change.

Note that you may experience a problem, where your EditText widgets

shrink, failing to follow the android:stretchColumns rule. This is a bug in

Android that will hopefully be repaired one day.

Extra Credit.................................................................................................

Here are some things you can try beyond those step-by-step instructions:

• Customize the rows beyond just the icon based on each restaurant,

such as applying different colors to the name based upon certain

criteria.

• Use three different layouts for the three different restaurant types.
  To do this, you will need to override getItemViewType() and
  getViewTypeCount() in the custom adapter to return the appropriate

data.

Further Reading..........................................................................................

Using custom Adapter classes and creating list rows that are more than

mere strings is covered in the "Getting Fancy with Lists" chapter of The

Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development.

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