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Courses Plus Student 1,965 PointsWhat if you have Multiple ListViews that you would like to use ListActivity for?
Could different ListView have the same ID @android:id/list then?
Yuchen Xu
Courses Plus Student 1,965 PointsYea, that's what I feel as well. Seems like ListAcitivity is only used for saving a couple lines of initialization code, but that advantage goes away when we have multiple listviews to manager. Good to know !
John Shankland
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1,973 PointsI would just manage the lists myself. ListActivity doesn't really do that much. For instance setListAdapter just calls setAdapter on a ListView item is got by using findViewById. Assume you have a layout file that has two ListView items with ids listView1 and listView2. In onCreate you would do something like
ListView listView1 = findViewById(R.id.listView1 ); listView1.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter ...
ListView listView2 = findViewById(R.id.listView2 ); listView2.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter ...