ListView OnLongClick strange behaviour

Question

I have a ListView within my project. It has many elements, and it uses a custom adapter, since its populated dynamically from a rails server.

I want to change the content of a ListItem when the item is longpressed. In order to achieve this, I have 2 layouts inside the ListItem, with one visible and one hidden.

The issue is that when I longpress an item, the layout changes (As expected), but other ListItems are also affected, and changed in the same way. This appear to occur once for every 5 items, and I cant figure out why.

This is the LongClickListener I'm using, it is located inside de GetView method on the custom adapter:

View v = convertView;

if (v == null){
   LayoutInflater vi =
      (LayoutInflater)getActivity().getSystemService(
         Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
   v = vi.inflate(R.layout.list_item, null);
}

final LinearLayout placeInfo =
   (LinearLayout) v.findViewById(R.id.list_item_info);

final RelativeLayout placeBrief =
   (RelativeLayout)v.findViewById(R.id.list_item_brief);

v.setOnLongClickListener(new OnLongClickListener(){

   @Override public boolean onLongClick(View v) {
      placeInfo.setVisibility(View.GONE);
      placeBrief.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
      return false;
   }});

I would appreciate any help, many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

ListViews recycle Views, so you only have a few views for all of your items. You're directly changing one of these view instances to switch between the info|brief. What you need is to save the status of the info|brief flag for the affected position somewhere else (e.g. a list of positions that should be "briefs" in the adapter). That way when you come back into getView() you can display the right one.