ListView inflating issue

Question

I'm building an sms app, and need to show the view according to Incoming/Outgoing sms. I'm facing the following issue, in my getView(..) I need to know if it's Incoming/Outgoing and then to show the following:

Incoming VIEW

Outgoing VIEW

But i can't think of a way to implement 1 view to handle this (because of the recycling in listview).

I thought of using setLayoutDirection in a LinearLayout, or maybe removeViews and then add them in correct position. Can you please assist me with the best way with the less performance?

Thanks very much

Answer 1

You can override the getViewType method in order to precise how many kind of rows you listview has.

Have a look here.

Answer 2

Here is a simple example how to achieve it with good performance: http://adilsoomro.blogspot.fi/2012/12/android-listview-with-speech-bubble.html