Fully expanded nested lists - Android

Question

I am attempting to create a nested list view for an android app. What I essentiall want is some thing like

                     nested list entry 1
Outer List Entry1    nested list entry 2
                     nested list entry 3

                      nested list entry 1
Outer List Entry 2    nested list entry 2
                      nested list entry 3

Where I have an outer list, which has two entries, and then have a nested list view which has detailed entries (if you imagine a calendar that has days of the week as the outer list, and with each day there is a list of 0 or more appointments listed vertically as above). Further more, I want the nested list items to be clickable/highlighted in the same way a top level list would be.

Most info I find having looked for nested list views is suggestions to use ExpandableListViews - Which I implemented, but it seems like a bit ugly to use this as its clearly not the same purpose (I dont want anything expandable - everything should always be fully expanded and non-collapsible - also, couldn't find info on laying out horizontally as above rather than vertical - but I assume that is possible relatively easily?).

I also used the selected answer here: android nested listview which works ok in terms of presentation, but doesn't offer the same list scroll/highlighting/click behavior for each individual item in the nested list.

Can anyone suggest any alternatives? ever implemented a similar layout with either of the above?

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UPDATE

I want the layout of the lists to actually be like the above text representation - in an attempt to clarify the layout I want, here is an image (yes, I know I should probably be downvoted for the lame screenshot of a diagram in open-office :)

So you can see, I actually want the screen to look like that - the parent/outer list being a list of time periods (in this case its days of the week, but it could be hours of the day etc), and for each row in that outer list, I want the inner list (appointments for that given timeslot) to appear as a nested list aligned horizontally to the parent.

Answer 1

Updated answer: If you want a table then you should probably split it to Fragments. The root View should be ScrollView. The child must be horizontal LinearLayout Every next column is a Fragment. Every Fragment container should have some weight. Every Fragment's root view should be vertical LinearLayout Make sure Frament with days item has the height of exactly three "tasks" item height. Hardcode them in dimen.xml. For convinience, make every Fragment's LinearLayout extended class that can have ListAdapter set. Populate the every row based on ListAdapter. That way you can achieve a list with fixed content.

Or you can do without Fragments if you don't want to be flexible. Adding new column will be just a matter of Fragments that encapsulate the logic.

Answer 2

To make ExpandableListView not collapse ,use

expandableList.setOnGroupClickListener(new OnGroupClickListener() {
  @Override
  public boolean onGroupClick(ExpandableListView parent, View v,
                              int groupPosition, long id) { 
    return true; // This way the expander cannot be collapsed
  }
});