Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android - Second Edition

Creating the POI list row layout

We now turn our attention to the layout for each row in the ListView widget. The Android platform provides a number of default layouts out of the box that can be used with a ListView widget:

Layout	Description
SimpleListItem1	A single line with a single caption field
SimpleListItem2	A two-line layout with a larger font and a brighter text color for the first field
TwoLineListItem	A two-line layout with an equal sized font for both lines and a brighter text color for the first line
ActivityListItem	A single line of text with an image view

All of the preceding three layouts provide a pretty standard design, but for more control over content layout, a custom layout can also be created, which is what ...