android - onItemClick gives index/ position of item on visible page ... not actual index of the item in list ..issue on enabling setTextFilterEnabled

Question

I am creating a list .. the elements of the list are drawn from sqlite database .. I populate the list using ArrayList and ArrayAdapter ...upon clicking the items on the list I want to be able to fire an intent containing info about the item clicked ... info like the index number of the item ..

using the method: onItemClick(AdapterView av, View v, int index, long arg)

I do get index of the item clicked . however it is of the list currently displayed . the problem comes when I do setFilterTextEnabled(true) , and on the app type in some text to to search some item ..and then click it ..rather than giving me the index of the item on the original list it gives me the index on filtered list..

following is the snippet of code:

myListView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> av, View v, int index, long arg) {
            Intent lyricsViewIntent = new Intent(iginga.this, LyricsPage.class);

            lyricsViewIntent.putExtra("title", songList.get((int)arg).getTitle());
            lyricsViewIntent.putExtra("id", songList.get((int)arg).getSongId());
            startActivity(lyricsViewIntent);
        }
    });

    myListView.setTextFilterEnabled(true);

Is there any way I can get the original index /position of the item instead of the one showing in filtered text ...when filtered.

Answer 1

I had a bit of a wrestle with this problem recently, and the solution turns out to be fairly simple. You can retrieve the "visible list" by using getListAdapter() on the ListActivity, which reflects the current filtered view of the list.

For example, in your ListActivity subclass's onCreate():

final ListView listView = getListView();
final ListAdapter listAdapter = getListAdapter();

listView .setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
        MyClass item = (MyClass) listAdapter .getItem(position);
        // now do something with that item
    }
});

So, ignore the "original" list that you put into the list adapter, and instead ask for the list from the adapter each time the event comes in.