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Andrew S
Andrew S

Reputation: 2987

Tabular information tableview or listview

What would be better for presenting a results table within an Android application where all the columns and rows have uniform size. A table view, or a list view with an custom list view adapter?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 202

Answers (2)

dldnh
dldnh

Reputation: 8961

every time I start to think TableView and start putting together a layout, I realize it just doesn't feel like I want it to, and that ListView with horizontal LinearLayouts is the way to go.

plus, putting together a custom adapter based on BaseAdapter is really straightforward, nothing anyone should be put off by

Upvotes: 1

Sam Judd
Sam Judd

Reputation: 7387

What kind of data? How much data?

A list view is a far more complicated view, but it allows you to show datasets that are infinitely large (millions and millions is ok). A table view is much simpler, but if you try to use one to display even a moderate number of rows you will start to run into memory issues, depending on how complex the data in each row is.

Upvotes: 1

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