How to get the TextView Tag from a TextView inside of a ListView

Question

I am currently working on android project where I am using a custom list view which TextViews for each item. I am settings the displayable text by using myTextView.setText("my text") and then setting the TextView tag by using myTextView.setTag("my tag").

Once its in the list view I then want to allow the user to click on the item within the list view and retrieve the textview text as well as the tag.

I've tried TextView textView = (TextView)getListAdapter().getItem(position); and ``TextView textView = (TextView)getListView().getItem(position); but it keeps saying that it can't can't from String to TextView.

How can I get the tag and the text from the text view.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

UPDATE 1 As requested this is a ListActivity that I am using and below is the code for the item click event

@Override
protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {

    //get selected items
    //String selectedValue = (String) getListAdapter().getItem(position);
    //TextView textView = (TextView)appArrayAdapter.getItem(position);
    TextView textView = (TextView)getListView().getChildAt(position);
    String selectedValue = textView.getText().toString();
    String selectedPackage = textView.getTag().toString();
    Intent intent = new Intent();
    intent.putExtra("appName", selectedValue);
    intent.putExtra("packageName", selectedPackage );
    setResult(0, intent);
    finish();
}

And the below code is the code that sets the list adapter

final ArrayList<ResolveInfo> list = (ArrayList<ResolveInfo>)pm.queryIntentActivities(intent, PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED);

        ArrayList<String> arrayList = new ArrayList<String>();
        imageList = new ArrayList<Drawable>();
        packageName = new ArrayList<String>();
        for(int i = 0; i != list.size(); i++)
        {
            String text = list.get(i).activityInfo.applicationInfo.loadLabel(pm).toString();
            String appPackage = list.get(i).activityInfo.packageName;
            arrayList.add(text);
            Drawable imageId = list.get(i).activityInfo.applicationInfo.loadIcon(pm);
            packageName.add(appPackage);
            imageList.add(imageId);
        }

        appArrayAdapter = new AppArrayAdapter(this, arrayList);
        //setListAdapter(new AppArrayAdapter(this, arrayList));
        setListAdapter(appArrayAdapter);

    }

And the below code is the appArrayExtender class

public class AppArrayAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String>
    {
        private final Context context;
        private final ArrayList<String> arrayList;
        //private final ArrayList<Drawable> imageList;

        public AppArrayAdapter(Context context, ArrayList<String> arrayList/*, ArrayList<Drawable> imageList*/)
        {
            super(context, R.layout.select_apps, arrayList);
            this.context = context;
            this.arrayList = arrayList;
            //this.imageList = imageList;
        }

        @Override
        public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
        {
            LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context
                    .getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
            View rowView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.select_apps, parent, false);
            TextView textView = (TextView)rowView.findViewById(R.id.label);
            ImageView imageView = (ImageView)rowView.findViewById(R.id.logo);

            textView.setText(arrayList.get(position));
            textView.setTag(packageName.get(position));
            imageView.setImageDrawable(imageList.get(position));
            //imageView.setImageResource(R.drawable.icon);
            return rowView;
        }
    }

And below is the XML for the layout

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="5dp" >

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/logo"
        android:layout_width="50px"
        android:layout_height="50px"
        android:layout_marginLeft="5px"
        android:layout_marginRight="20px"
        android:layout_marginTop="5px" >
    </ImageView>

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/label"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@+id/label" >
    </TextView>


</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

If you want the text from the TextView, use the information passed into the onClick rather than all that extra code. The framework passes in the view that was clicked on (the View v parameter). If it is a single TextView, you can do v.getText().toString(), if it is a more complex layout, you can use v.findViewById(R.id.TextView1) to get the proper TextView and the use getText().toString() on it:

@Override 
protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) { 

    TextView textView = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.yourRowLayoutWidget);  // get the widget contained in the layout
    String selectedValue = textView.getText().toString(); // get the value of the widget into a string
    // do what you will with the string
} 

Answer 2

when the list view is scrolled, view items, that just disappeared are passed to the getView of adapters method as an argument convertView, so u set Tag f.e. on 7 item and than it is converted to the 1st cause 7th is no longer wisivle and the 1st item will have the wrong tag;

I suggest u to extends BaseAdapter and store some object with all the data u need.

it would look like this

public class DialogsAdapter extends BaseAdapter {

    private final LayoutInflater mInflater;

    private List<YourObjectToStoreData> mData ;

    public DialogsAdapter(Context context, List<YourObjectToStoreData> data
    ) {
        this.mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);

        mData = data;
    }
    ...

also take a look at Holder Pattern it might be usefull