Monthly Archives: July 2017

Missed error due to logcat scrolling in Android Studio

I had an activity crashing but could only briefly see the crash report scroll by in the Android Studio logcat before it was cleared and replaced by the restarted activity. Changing ‘Show only selected application’ to ‘Edit filter configuration’ did … Continue reading

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Restore scroll position on return to listview

Thanks again to stackoverflow. Wanted to position listview at same place it was left when the user clicked on an item to update/view it (in separate activity). To save position – not just of top record but of the offset … Continue reading

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Update listview after item update

I couldn’t find a way to refresh the listview after returning from updating an item in a separate activity. I couldn’t get any variation of adapter.notifyDataSetChanged() to work, despite it being suggested in many places. What worked for me was … Continue reading

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onItemClickListener not working

Had list view using custom adapter and found that onItemClickListener would not work. Found answer in stackoverflow. Apparently the listener won’t work if any row item contains a focusable or clickable view. The solution is the following line, which I … Continue reading

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