Android Question Adding items to list view

Nitin Joshi · Mar 4, 2025

I am using list view in B4A. There are two pages B4XMainPage and B4XPageA
I have added items in list view while B4XPageA is created (i use B4XPages.AddPageAndCreate). B4XPageA appears from B4XMainPage when button is clicked. It seems that list will be empty when B4XPageA appears.
Do i need to add items in list view when B4XPageA is appeared instead of B4XPageA is created?

Erel · Mar 5, 2025

I hope that you are using CustomListView. Don't use ListView.

Adding the items when the page is created is recommended and should work fine. The problem is somewhere else.

Nitin Joshi · Mar 5, 2025

Erel said:
I hope that you are using CustomListView

I am using List view as i just need to keep simple data to set time, using ListView object and sample code...

List view code:

Dim lst as ListView
lst.initialize("Lst")
lst.AddSingleLine("AM")
lst.AddSingleLine("PM")

josejad · Mar 5, 2025

Upload a small project showing the problem, it will be easier to help you

Nitin Joshi · Mar 5, 2025

Ok...

Nitin Joshi said:
I am using List view as i just need to keep simple data to set time,

By the way @Erel ideally, i want to use cross platform control. Can i achieve my goal (Hr, Min and AM/PM in list) by using customelistview? or any better suggestion please, thank you.

josejad · Mar 5, 2025

Nitin Joshi said:
i want to use cross platform control

If you want your project to be cross platform, then use xCustomListView (cross-platform). Listview is B4A specific

Alexander Stolte · Mar 5, 2025

Nitin Joshi said:
customelistview?

The xCustomListView is cross-platform. Everything that has a [B4X] in the title is cross-platform, but sometimes it can be that [B4X] is in the title and a platform is not supported, but this is usually stated in the thread.

udg · Mar 5, 2025

Out of curiosity: if the ListView (or, better, CLV) is just for those two values (AM/PM) why not use a B4xSwitch, a radio button group ora any similar view?
Same for hours/minutes. There are quite a few "specialized" views available in the Forum.

I understand that a quick and dirty solution looks appealing at first, but in the long run (i.e. well before your project is over) you may regret that choice.

For portabiliy among platforms: use B4XPages, use anchors in Design, prefer B4X views.

Nitin Joshi · Mar 5, 2025

@udg Thanks for your suggestion. I will think over it. Meanwhile, as Erel suggested, I will use xCustomListView instead of List View.

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