ListView inflating issue

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I'm building an sms app, and need to show the view according to Incoming/Outgoing sms. I'm facing the following issue, in my getView(..) I need to know if it's Incoming/Outgoing and then to show the following:

Incoming VIEW

Outgoing VIEW

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But i can't think of a way to implement 1 view to handle this (because of the recycling in listview).

I thought of using setLayoutDirection in a LinearLayout, or maybe removeViews and then add them in correct position. Can you please assist me with the best way with the less performance?

Thanks very much

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18868194/android-xml-layout-for-a-listview-with-different-items. check this — Raghunandan, Feb 25 '14 at 14:36

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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You can override the getViewType method in order to precise how many kind of rows you listview has.

Have a look here.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered Feb 25 '14 at 14:37

S.Thiongane

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Yeah i've been thinking of this, but isn't this option has high performance? also, second time the view already inflated with RTL and its not null and I need to change it to LTR, this isn't help me much – Udi Oshi Feb 25 '14 at 14:47
Sorry, but i don't know if it has high performance ! I don't think also that there is another solution to have different rows in a list, without overriding this method ! Just respect the recycling pattern and let android do the rest for you :) – S.Thiongane Feb 25 '14 at 15:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 25 '14 at 14:43

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Here is a simple example how to achieve it with good performance: http://adilsoomro.blogspot.fi/2012/12/android-listview-with-speech-bubble.html

answered Feb 25 '14 at 14:43

Niko

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Not that good, it's only changing the background, i have several views which need layout direction change also. – Udi Oshi Feb 25 '14 at 14:45
You can build your list item that you just need to adjust the gravity/text/image for recycled view – Niko Feb 25 '14 at 14:50
That's not possible, i need to change the direction of all view, not just left/right gravity and bg image... – Udi Oshi Feb 25 '14 at 15:01
I don't understand how it's not possible, RelativeLayout as ViewGroup and alignParentLeft/alignParentRight with toLeftOf and toRightOf? Can you post better image of your cases? – Niko Feb 25 '14 at 17:16

ListView inflating issue

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