Lists & Adapters

When a ListView is put inside a ScrollView with (or without) other views it takes as much space is available in the ScrollView.

In Android, if you’ve ever wanted to sort of disable the scrollbars of a scrolling ViewGroup like a ListView, GridView, ScrollView, etc.

In my Android app, I was working in an Activity where I had a ScrollView containing a LinearLayout (could be a RelativeLayout too though) that had a few…

There are times when you want to have a scrollable ViewGroup like a ViewPager or a ListView or a GridView inside another scrollable ViewGroup like a ScrollView.

You might be thinking showing up a View like TextView, ImageView, EditText, Button, etc.

Swipe Views are an efficient way to allow the user to laterally navigate among related data items spread across multiple panes using a simple touch gesture…

We’ve already discussed ViewPager in depth in one of my earlier posts .

GridView is a ViewGroup just like ListView that allows us to display items in a two-dimensional scrolling grid.

Spinners in Android are like select dropdowns (HTML) of web development.

Android has an excellent Fitler class that helps us filter data from an entire data set based on some pattern (for example a string) provided.

ListView is commonly used to display a set of data in a list. For example a list of emails, messages, tasks or contacts.

There are times when you want to display data as a list.