I'm trying to create an app where there is a ScrollView taking up part of a screen, and I've added a linearlayout within that, but I need to dynamically add rows of views (a textView, 2 editText views, and a checkbox on each row) and be able to pull data from those to be put into a database.
I'm pretty new to Android development, so I'm really not sure how to go about doing this, any help would be appreciated.
Create this layout xml (arrange the way you want) say item_layout
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="New Text"
android:id="@+id/textView2" />
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/editText" />
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/editText2" />
<CheckBox
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="New CheckBox"
android:id="@+id/checkBox" />
</LinearLayout>
Adding views
LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)context.getSystemService
(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
LinearLayout scrollViewLinearlayout = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.scroll_view_linear_layout); // The layout inside scroll view
for(int i = 0; i < count; i++){
LinearLayout layout2 = new LinearLayout(context);
layout2.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
View item = inflater.inflate(R.layout.item_layout, null, false);
layout2.setId(i);
layout2.addView(item);
scrollViewLinearlayout.addView(layout2);
}
Getting values from the view
for(int i = 0; i < count; i++){
LinearLayout itemLl = (LinearLayout)scrollViewLinearlayout.findViewById(i);
EditText et1 = (EditText)itemLl.findViewById(R.id.editText);
String et1Str = et1.getText().toString();
// Similarly get other values and add them in the database
}
scrollViewLl is the linear layout inside the scroll view. You can't have more than one child in a scrollview. Thats why this linear layout is used.Use a ListView instead of a ScrollView, and dymanically add/remove elements.
Once you learn about ListView you'll find how to do this quite easy:
https://github.com/codepath/android_guides/wiki/Using-an-ArrayAdapter-with-ListView
