So far no luck. Been trying to add an object to my listview with no luck. After I add it should just out put the name of the assignment even though I set the object with other parameters such as grade and category. This is code is placed into a fragment java class that outputs the listview
private void populateListView(){
TeamArrayList = new ArrayList<CourseWorkItem>();
CourseWorkItem myItem = null;
myItem.setName("First Assignment");
myItem.setCategory("Homework");
myItem.setGrade(60);
TeamArrayList.add(myItem);
//creates an adapter
itemArrayAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<CourseWorkItem>(this,R.layout.individualview,TeamArrayList);
ListView v = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.courseListXML);
v.setAdapter(itemArrayAdapter);
}