you can manage the sorting order in your List Activity when you are creating your own CustomAdapter for the list activity .
Filtering and sorting of the data is handled by the adapter. You need to implement the logic in your custom adapter implementation.
The adapter is assigned to the ListView via the setAdapter method on the ListView object.
for eg
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
Cursor mCursor = getContacts();
startManagingCursor(mCursor);
// now create a new list adapter bound to the cursor.
// SimpleListAdapter is designed for binding to a Cursor.
ListAdapter adapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, // Context.
android.R.layout.two_line_list_item, // Specify the row template
// to use (here, two
// columns bound to the
// two retrieved cursor
// rows).
mCursor, // Pass in the cursor to bind to.
// Array of cursor columns to bind to.
new String[] { ContactsContract.Contacts._ID,
ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME },
// Parallel array of which template objects to bind to those
// columns.
new int[] { android.R.id.text1, android.R.id.text2 });
// Bind to our new adapter.
setListAdapter(adapter);
}
private Cursor getContacts() {
// Run query
Uri uri = ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI;
String[] projection = new String[] { ContactsContract.Contacts._ID,
ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME };
String selection = ContactsContract.Contacts.IN_VISIBLE_GROUP + " = '"
+ ("1") + "'";
String[] selectionArgs = null;
String sortOrder = ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME
+ " COLLATE LOCALIZED ASC";
return managedQuery(uri, projection, selection, selectionArgs,
sortOrder);
}
Here Sorting order is managed through the cursor , which contains the data for the list .