Fancy dynamic list in Android: TableLayout vs ListView
Solution 1
Using ListView and ArrayAdapter you can do more complicated layouts than just a TextView. You could specify a LinearLayout with 2 TextViews and 2 Buttons for each row in the List.
here's a similar question Android: ListView elements with multiple clickable buttons
Solution 2
IMHO it depends on the amount of your data you need to render.
Build layout dinamically via inflate/addView is a quite simple task but is also more slow than using a custom adapter. with a custom adapter you can reuse the convertView parameter and then set the values more efficiently
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user1810401 almost 2 years
There is a requirement to have not-so-trivial dynamic list, each record of which consists of several columns (texts, buttons). It should look something like:
Text11 Text12 Button1 Button2 Text21 Text22 Button1 Button2 ...
At first obvious way to accomplish that seemed to be
TableLayout
. I was expecting to have layout/styling data specified in res/layout/*.xml and to populate it with some dataset from java code (as withListView
, for which its possible to specifyTextView
of item in *.xml and bind it to some array usingArrayAdapter
). But after playing for a while, all I found to be possible is fully populatingTableLayout
programatically. Still, creatingTableRow
byTableRow
and setting layout attributes directly in java code doesn't seem elegant enough.So the question is: am I at the right path? Is
TableLayout
really best View to accomplish that? Maybe it's more appropriate to extendListView
or something else to meet such requirements?