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# Binding to Data with AdapterView

## In this document

1. Filling the Layout with Data
2. Handling User Selections

## Related tutorials

1. Spinner
2. List View
3. Grid View

The `AdapterView` is a ViewGroup subclass whose child Views are determined by an `Adapter` that binds to data of some type. AdapterView is useful whenever you need to display stored data (as opposed to resource strings or drawables) in your layout.

`Gallery`, `ListView`, and `Spinner` are examples of AdapterView subclasses that you can use to bind to a specific type of data and display it in a certain way.

AdapterView objects have two main responsibilities:

- Filling the layout with data
- Handling user selections

## Filling the Layout with Data

Inserting data into the layout is typically done by binding the AdapterView class to an `Adapter`, which retrieves data from an external source (perhaps a list that the code supplies or query results from the device's database).

The following code sample does the following:

1. Creates a `Spinner` with an existing View and binds it to a new ArrayAdapter that reads an array of colors from the local resources.
2. Creates another Spinner object from a View and binds it to a new SimpleCursorAdapter that will read people's names from the device contacts (see `Contacts.People`).

    // Get a Spinner and bind it to an ArrayAdapter that
    // references a String array.
    Spinner s1 = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner1);
    ArrayAdapter adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(
        this, R.array.colors, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item);
    adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
    s1.setAdapter(adapter);

    // Load a Spinner and bind it to a data query.
    private static String[] PROJECTION = new String[] {
            People._ID, People.NAME
        };

    Spinner s2 = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner2);
    Cursor cur = managedQuery(People.CONTENT_URI, PROJECTION, null, null);

    SimpleCursorAdapter adapter2 = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this,
        android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, // Use a template
                                              // that displays a
                                              // text view
        cur, // Give the cursor to the list adapter
        new String[] {People.NAME}, // Map the NAME column in the
                                             // people database to...
        new int[] {android.R.id.text1}); // The "text1" view defined in
                                         // the XML template

    adapter2.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
    s2.setAdapter(adapter2);

Note that it is necessary to have the People._ID column in projection used with CursorAdapter or else you will get an exception.

If, during the course of your application's life, you change the underlying data that is read by your Adapter, you should call `notifyDataSetChanged()`. This will notify the attached View that the data has been changed and it should refresh itself.

## Handling User Selections

You handle the user's selection by setting the class's `AdapterView.OnItemClickListener` member to a listener and catching the selection changes.

    // Create a message handling object as an anonymous class.
    private OnItemClickListener mMessageClickedHandler = new OnItemClickListener() {
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View v, int position, long id)
        {
            // Display a messagebox.
            Toast.makeText(mContext,"You've got an event",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    };

    // Now hook into our object and set its onItemClickListener member
    // to our class handler object.
    mHistoryView = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.history);
    mHistoryView.setOnItemClickListener(mMessageClickedHandler);

For more discussion on how to create different AdapterViews, read the following tutorials: Hello Spinner, Hello ListView, and Hello GridView.

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