Hello all,

Forgive what may be a simple question here, but:

how do I programatically populate a ListView with text? I have an array of strings i'd like to appear in a ListView, as if I'd used the entries key in the ListView XML, but i would like to do this from the code.

How do I do this? I've read the file browser tutorials but I'm still drawing a blank.

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rdormer wrote:Hello all,

Forgive what may be a simple question here, but:

how do I programatically populate a ListView with text? I have an array of strings i'd like to appear in a ListView, as if I'd used the entries key in the ListView XML, but i would like to do this from the code.

How do I do this? I've read the file browser tutorials but I'm still drawing a blank.

Is there a way to do the same thing if you're not using a ListActivity?

A ListActivity is not a very special activity, it jsut makes some list related operations easier. So you can just change your activity from extending Activity to ListActivity. And yes this also can be done using a normal Activity, look for the apropriate methods in the ListView and Adapter docs.

I'm extending someone else's code, so unfortunately I cannot change the base class that they have chosen for their activities That said, ListView and Adapter are exactly where my confusion is - I don't know how they relate to eachother, and it seems like things are mostly done by subclassing Adapter. Do I have to subclass Adapter just to make a class to display strings, or is there some standard way of doing this?