ListView with Sections in android.

Hello all……….

We have seen many posts about ListViews like creating a listview, adding data to it, customizing a listview etc.

Take a look at some of these examples

1. Single Selection ListView in android
2. Flitering a ListView using an input from an EditText in Android.
3. How to create a custom ListView in android?
4. Android dialog with ListView.
5. Expandable ListView in ANDROID using SimpleExpandableListAdapter, a simple example.
6. Android listView with icons.
7. Creating scrolling ListView in android.

ListView with sections in android

Today also we will see another customization of listviews.
Today I will show you how to create listviews with sections.

This is the main.xml layout file which contains the ListView.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/orange"
    >
    <ListView
		 	android:id="@+id/list1"
			android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
			android:scrollbars="none"
			android:background="@drawable/bg_transparent"
			android:fadingEdge="vertical"
			android:soundEffectsEnabled="true"
			android:divider="@drawable/green"
			android:dividerHeight="1px"
			android:padding="0dip"
			android:smoothScrollbar="true"
		    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
		    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
		    android:drawSelectorOnTop="false"
		    android:layout_marginTop="5dip"
		    android:layout_marginLeft="5dip"
		    android:layout_marginRight="5dip"
		    android:layout_marginBottom="5dip"
		    android:layout_weight="1"/>

</LinearLayout>

I am using some resources in this, one of which is the “customshape_header.xml” file which is saved in res/drawable directory.
This will ptovide the background for the section header.
customshape_header.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <corners android:radius="3dp" />
    <solid android:color="#FFFFFF"/>
    <stroke
        android:width="1dip"
        android:color="#C0C0FF" />
</shape>

Strings.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="app_name">ListView with Sections</string>
    <drawable name="white">#ffffff</drawable>
	<drawable name="black">#000000</drawable>
	<drawable name="green">#347C2C</drawable>
	<drawable name="pink">#FF00FF</drawable>
	<drawable name="violet">#a020f0</drawable>
	<drawable name="grey">#778899</drawable>
	<drawable name="red">#C11B17</drawable>
	<drawable name="yellow">#FFFF8C</drawable>
	<drawable name="PowderBlue">#b0e0e6</drawable>
	<drawable name="brown">#2F1700</drawable>
	<drawable name="Hotpink">#7D2252</drawable>
	<drawable name="orange">#FFA500</drawable>
	<drawable name="darkgrey">#606060</drawable>
</resources>

This is the “lv_layout.xml” file which I am using for each row in the listview.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:id="@+id/l1"
    >
</LinearLayout>

Now the main java file which implements the logic for creating the listview with sections.

package com.coderzheaven.pack;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;

public class SectionListViewDemo extends Activity {

	ListView L1;
	myAdapter myadp;
	String last_item = "B";
	static final String[] labels_array = new String[] {
		  "Afghanistan", "Albania",
		  "Bahrain", "Bangladesh",
		  "Cote d'Ivoire", "Cambodia",
		  "Estonia", "Ethiopia", "Faeroe Islands",
		  "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
		};
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        L1 = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.list1);
        myadp = new myAdapter(this,labels_array);
        L1.setAdapter(myadp);

        L1.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener(){
    		@Override
    		public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2,
    				long arg3) {
    		}
    	});
    }

    /* The adapter class.... */
    class myAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String>
    {
  	   TextView label;
  	   View row;
  	   public myAdapter(Context context,String[] arr)
  	   {
  		    super(context, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, arr);
  	   }

  	   public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
  		{
  	 		   try{
  	 				LayoutInflater inflater=getLayoutInflater();
  	 				row = inflater.inflate(R.layout.lv_layout, parent, false);

  	 				LinearLayout L1 = (LinearLayout)row.findViewById(R.id.l1);
  	 				TextView header = new TextView(getApplicationContext());
  	 				L1.addView(header);
  	 				TextView label = new TextView(getApplicationContext());
  	 				L1.addView(label);
  					System.out.println("LAST : " + last_item);
  					header.setText(last_item);
  					label.setText(labels_array[position]);
  					label.setPadding(4, 1, 1, 1);
  					L1.setPadding(4, 4, 4, 4);

  					label.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);

  					if(!labels_array[position].substring(0,1).equalsIgnoreCase(last_item)){
  						System.out.println("ADD :  " + last_item);
  						header.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.customshape_header);
  						header.setPadding(4, 1, 1, 1);
  						row.setEnabled(false);
  						header.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
  						header.setText(labels_array[position].substring(0,1));
  						//label.setVisibility(View.GONE);
  						//position-=2;
  					}else{
  						System.out.println("REM :  " + last_item);
  						header.setVisibility(View.GONE);
  					}
  					last_item = labels_array[position].substring(0,1);

  	 		   }catch(Exception e){

  			   }
  		    return row;
  		}
    }
}

Now its ready to run the application.

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