Android Mad - Development Guide for Mobile App Development

In this tutorial, we will learn how to build ListView and RecyclerView with Custom Adapter in Kotlin. Everybody knows what is Listview and Recyclerview. So, without any introduction about them we will jump into the coding part of the Tutorial.

Coding Part

Kotlin ListView Example

We should follow the same steps to create Activity with associated layout file for example MainActivity.kt with activity_main.xml

Create ListView Adapter

Create new class and named as MoviesListViewAdapter and paste the following.

class MoviesListViewAdapter(private val activity: Activity, moviesList: List) : BaseAdapter() {

    private var moviesList = ArrayList()

    init {
        this.moviesList = moviesList as ArrayList
    }

    override fun getCount(): Int {
        return moviesList.size
    }

    override fun getItem(i: Int): Any {
        return i
    }

    override fun getItemId(i: Int): Long {
        return i.toLong()
    }

    @SuppressLint("InflateParams", "ViewHolder")
    override fun getView(i: Int, convertView: View?, viewGroup: ViewGroup): View {
        var vi: View = convertView as View
        val inflater = activity.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE) as LayoutInflater
        vi = inflater.inflate(R.layout.movie_list_row, null)
        val title = vi.findViewById(R.id.title)
        val genre = vi.findViewById(R.id.genre)
        val year = vi.findViewById(R.id.year)
        title.text = moviesList[i].title
        genre.text = moviesList[i].genre
        year.text = moviesList[i].year
        return vi
    }
}

Then Assign the adapter to ListView like below

listView = findViewById(R.id.listView) as ListView
adapter = MoviesListViewAdapter(this, movieList)
(listView as ListView).adapter = adapter

Kotlin RecyclerView Example

Create RecyclerView Adapter

Create new class and named as MoviesRecyclerAdapter and paste the following.

class MoviesRecyclerAdapter(private val moviesList: List) : RecyclerView.Adapter() {

    inner class MyViewHolder(view: View) : RecyclerView.ViewHolder(view) {
        var title: TextView = view.findViewById(R.id.title)
        var year: TextView = view.findViewById(R.id.year)
        var genre: TextView = view.findViewById(R.id.genre)

    }

    override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): MyViewHolder {
        val itemView = LayoutInflater.from(parent.context)
                .inflate(R.layout.movie_list_row, parent, false)

        return MyViewHolder(itemView)
    }

    override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: MyViewHolder, position: Int) {
        val Movies = moviesList[position]
        holder.title.text = Movies.title
        holder.genre.text = Movies.genre
        holder.year.text = Movies.year
    }

    override fun getItemCount(): Int {
        return moviesList.size
    }
}

Then Assign the adapter to RecyclerView like below

recyclerView = findViewById(R.id.recyclerView) as RecyclerView
mAdapter = MoviesRecyclerAdapter(movieList)
val mLayoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(applicationContext)
recyclerView!!.layoutManager = mLayoutManager
recyclerView!!.itemAnimator = DefaultItemAnimator()
recyclerView!!.adapter = mAdapter

In this tutorial, I am not covered the basics of creating listview and recyclerview. You can find the full example in download section

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