Hi All,

Is there a way to define custom elements that are configurable within resource files and possible to store in arrays?

Maybe there is a better way to do this so here is what I want to do:
I want to define elements which I can store within an array to display, i.e. in a customized list view /adapter.
I want to be able to define the order within an array in an xml file and define the id of the elements as well as some text and optionally a drawable. Than I want to display them within a list view. When I select one of these elements I want the ID defined for this element to be the one defined by me.

I would like something like this but I am unable to find a way to get there, any ideas?

First take a look at the "android:entries" tag in ListView. It will take an array from values resources. It may only take a string array though and not use all the additional images as you defined in your XML. I'm mentioning this without trying it.

If the above doesn't work quite exactly how you want then you have to write your own custom LayoutInflater.Factory which is not too hard. You can define and handle the XML yourself.

http://developer.android.com/reference/ ... ctory.html

Hi MichaelEGR,

thank you for your quick reply.
You are right, the List view only takes string-arrays within the android:entries tag, it reads them from a typed array from the entries.

I am able to define my own entry tag and insert my own list. What I can't do, is read my defined array again from the typed array I get from context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs, R.styleable.MyListView);

I just figured out that i can get the TypedArray from the resource with getResources().obtainTypedArray(resId);
I let you know how that works out.

Hi,

as promissed, here the update on my research.

I could not figure out, how to define multple values within one resource element. Thats why I now use different lists with the same size to configure my adapter.

this one knows how to extract the information and apply them to my object.