Apps make LinearLayout have a ListView Look

[motoko]

Hello all, am new to android, so i was wondering if you guys could please help me out because i have no idea how to go about this. i am trying to create a number of rows in a LinearLayout but i want it to look like a ListView. Is there a way i can do this without using a ListView, since i already have a fixed amount of rows. Please any help or tip will be greatly appreciated as i have not yet found any tutorial on the internet.

thank you

 

[Boogs]

You can just stack a whole bunch of Linear Layouts on top of each other with lines in between and pack the whole thing inside a scroll view. That would give you a look of the settings pages that you see in the normal Android settings menus. Is that what you're talking about?

 

[motoko]

yes, thats what i am talking about. thanks a bunch

 

[tdieckman]

yes, thats what i am talking about. thanks a bunch

If you just want the look of the settings screens, use a PreferencesActivity. It'll do all the work for you including loading and saving the values.

 

[motoko]

Thanks. Will try that out, never would have thought of using preference activity.