You should create a custom adapter
that extends ArrayAdapter
. The things you can do with an ArrayAdapter
are limited.
Something like this:
public class PersonAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Person> {
private final Context context;
private final ArrayList<Person> data;
private final int layoutResourceId;
public PersonAdapter(Context context, int layoutResourceId, ArrayList<Person> data) {
super(context, layoutResourceId, data);
this.context = context;
this.data = data;
this.layoutResourceId = layoutResourceId;
}
@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
View row = convertView;
ViewHolder holder = null;
if(row == null)
{
LayoutInflater inflater = ((Activity)context).getLayoutInflater();
row = inflater.inflate(layoutResourceId, parent, false);
holder = new ViewHolder();
holder.textView1 = (TextView)row.findViewById(R.id.text1);
holder.textView2 = (TextView)row.findViewById(R.id.text2);
...
...
holder.textView3 = (TextView)row.findViewById(R.id.text3);
row.setTag(holder);
}
else
{
holder = (ViewHolder)row.getTag();
}
Person person = data.get(position);
holder.textView1.setText(person.getName());
holder.textView2.setText(person.getAddress());
...
...
holder.textView3.setText(person.getEtc());
return row;
}
static class ViewHolder
{
TextView textView1;
TextView textView2;
...
...
TextView textView3;
}
}
Where textView1
, textView2
... textView-n
are all your text views. Set your adapter as follows:
setListAdapter(new PersonAdapter(MyActivity.this, R.layout.list_text, personList));
Note: I assume that your personList
is a List
type object. If it is an Array
do let me know.