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Android Simple List App
In this section, we're going to tackle Android Lists. You've no doubt seen may apps that use a list view. They look like this:
If there are too many items in the list, you can scroll down to see more.
When you select an item on the list, you typically go to a new Activity. In the image below, we've selected Ruby on Rails from the previous list of programming courses:
Let's make a start in creating a simple list that goes to a second screen when a list item is selected.
Start a new project for this. Type Simple List as the application name, and Empty Views Activity as the template. When your project loads, click on the activity_main.xml tab. Make sure you are in Design view and not Code view. Click on the default "Hello World" TextView and press the delete key on your keyboard to get rid of it. In earlier versions of Android Studio, expand the Legacy item in the Palette and locate ListView:
(The RecyclerView, which is under Containers, is the more modern version of ListView. We'll add one of these in a later lesson.
Drag one onto your blank Activity (or onto the Component Tree). It should look like this:
As you can see, it's an empty container. It will get filled with your list items when your app is up and running.
To add the constraint, make sure your ListView is selected. Now click the Infer Constraints icon in the toolbar:
Take a look at the Attributes area on the right and it should look like this:
In the ID area at the top, type myListView. We'll need this ID in our code:
If you have a look at your layout, it may have turned into this in earlier versions of Android Studio (don't worry if it hasn't):
These are default placeholders for a TextView and a sub TextView. We'll be replacing Item 1, Item2, Item 3, etc, with our own headings. (We'll be making use of the sub views in the next section, and adding an image to the left of the TextViews.)
That's all we need for the design of the layout. We can get some coding done now.
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