my question is:
is it possible to define the layout (e.g. the layout for the iconified text item) with xml like it is done for normal activities?
tried some ways, but nothing did work...

would be quite nice to do that, so the layout is independed from the code (... and a lot easier with the gui designer )

I'm going to post a tutorial on how to do this in about a week and a half.
But I'm too busy with my project right now.

hint: you use SimpleAdapter or SimpleCursorAdapter

thanks for the tip... maybe i can figure it out
... otherwise i wait the additional two weeks there is lots of other stuff to do