How to do custom ListView with colorful items' backgrounds?

You override getView in your adapter to make changes to the view. Keep in mind that ListView reuses the view implementations, so if you change the color to item 10, make sure you set the color to the opposite for all other views e. G new SimpleAdapter( ... ) { @Override public View getView (int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { View view = super.

GetView(position, convertView, parent); if (position == 10) { // set background color = red; } else { // set background color = green; } return view; } }.

You override getView in your adapter to make changes to the view. Keep in mind that ListView reuses the view implementations, so if you change the color to item 10, make sure you set the color to the opposite for all other views. E.g.

New SimpleAdapter( ... ) { @Override public View getView (int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { View view = super. GetView(position, convertView, parent); if (position == 10) { // set background color = red; } else { // set background color = green; } return view; } }.

Thanks a lot, SOLVED – Peter O. Nov 21 '10 at 11:24.

To accomplish this, you need to create a custom array adapter and then change the background color if the conditions are right. Check out this post for an example: Custom ArrayAdapter setBackground in getView.

Thanks a lot, greate tutorial, but I've used the one below – Peter O. Nov 21 '10 at 11:24.

Here is the code, hope it'll be helpful for other users private void fillData() { Cursor c = this.mDbManager. GetNgOrderDetailByOrderNumber(this. MNumber); ArrayList> items = new ArrayList>(); if (!c.isAfterLast()) { do { // ... filling HashMap and putting it to ArrayList } while (c.moveToNext()); } SimpleAdapter adapter = new SimpleAdapter(this, items, R.layout.

List_item, new String { "product", "ordered", "price", "discount" }, new int { R.id. ProductTextView, R.id. OrderedTextView, R.id.

PriceTextView, R.id. DiscountTextView }) { // here is the method you need to override, to achieve colorful list @Override public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { View view = super. GetView(position, convertView, parent); HashMap items = (HashMap) getListView() .

GetItemAtPosition(position); if (Long. ParseLong(items. Get("id")) % 10 == 0) { view.

SetBackgroundColor(Color. GREEN); } else { view. SetBackgroundColor(Color.

YELLOW); } return view; } }; ListView l = (ListView) findViewById(android. R.id. List); l.

SetAdapter(adapter); }.

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