What's the smartest way to build a list MENU (not necessarily dynamically ...) with ListActivity? The simple purpose would be to define a couple of list view items which start activities when they are being clicked, something like a table of content of my program.

I know, this looks like a very simple task - but unfortunatelly, I couldn't find any straight-forward sample for this.

Thanks a bunch!
boris

What kind of menu?
ContextualMenu (Long-press), OptionsMenu (MENU key) or simply a SubActivity?

Hi,

thanks for your reply! In fact, I'd like to implement a menu like the one from the API demos (see screenshot) but not in the same, dynamical way (if I remember well their menu is generated from the structure of the file system ...).

Kind regards,
boris

Well, then it's very simple

Create the static XML layout that you desire, put IDs to every widget/component.
Create a new Activity.
In onCreate associate the IDs to components in the XML.
At the end of onCreate, set your setContentView(R.layout.yourxmllayout)

Now, inside the onCreate, this is what I'm not very sure: you have to override the onClick of every item, or the onClick for the whole activity. You can try.

And another solution, could be this one:

http://www.anddev.org/touchable_listview-t2586.html

This method should be simpler, but maybe it's too dynamic for your tastes

Thanks again for answering. I perfectly understand your post for the case of, let's say, buttons. However, in this particular case I'd like to use ListView with respective list elements. Is there any "ListViewItem" element I could populate the ListView in my static XML layout with?

Cheers,
boris

Then there are 2 solutions that I know:
1) Do it in java code.
2) If we read ListView widget in Android Docs, it refers to a ListAdapter, which "is the bridge between a ListView and the data that backs the list" http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/widget/ListAdapter.html