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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2nd Edition
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Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 2nd Edition

by Bill Phillips, Chris Stewart, Brian Hardy, Kristin Marsicano
July 2015
Beginner to intermediate
600 pages
18h 59m
English
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Customizing List Items

So far, each of your list items only displays the title of a Crime using a simple TextView.

What do you do when you want to display more information in each list item? What if you want to customize the design of each list item? Moving your item view to a separate layout file will allow you to do both of these things while also cleaning up the code.

Creating the list item layout

For CriminalIntent, a list item’s layout should include the crime’s title, its date, and whether the case has been solved (Figure 9.10). This layout calls for two TextViews and a CheckBox.

Figure 9.10  A handful of custom list items

You create a new layout for a list item view the same way you do for the view of ...

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