Recipe

Follow these steps to search Twitter and display the results in a list.

• Add a file named TextViewItem.xml under the Resources/layout folder containing the following XML.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
    android:id="@+id/textItem" 
    android:textSize="44sp"       
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

• In a ListActivity subclass, add the following code.

public class Activity1 : ListActivity
{
string[] data = {"one", "two", "three", "four", "five"} ;

protected override void OnCreate (Bundle bundle)
{
base.OnCreate (bundle);
ArrayAdapter adapter = new ArrayAdapter (this,
Resource.Layout.TextViewItem, data);        
ListAdapter = adapter;
}
       
protected override void OnListItemClick (ListView l, View v,
int position, long id)
{
base.OnListItemClick (l, v, position, id);
Toast.MakeText (this, data [position],
ToastLength.Short).Show ();
}

}

Additional Information

An ArrayAdapter binds each object in an array to a TextView. The ListActivity class used here implicitly contains a ListView that can be bound to a data source through the ListAdapter property, causing each TextView instance to be presented in a list. Overriding OnListItemClick allows us to handle item selection.