Selecting multiple items in ListView

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How to select multiple item in ListView in android.

score 44 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 07 '14 at 13:45

Actually you can ;) It's just a matter of user experience, right?

Try this, (1) for list control set

listView.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE);   
listView.setItemsCanFocus(false);

(2) define list item as

<CheckedTextView 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:paddingLeft="6dip"
    android:paddingRight="6dip"
    android:checkMark="?android:attr/listChoiceIndicatorMultiple"
    android:background="@drawable/txt_view_bg" />

This is same as android.R.layout.simple_list_item_multiple_choice except android:background="@drawable/txt_view_bg

(3) And define drawable txt_view_bg.xml as

<item android:drawable="@drawable/selected"
  android:state_checked="true" />  
<item android:drawable="@drawable/not_selected" />

Note:- The preferred way to handle multiple choice is to track choices your-self with on click item click, rather than depending on its state in list.

I assume that the item elements above are in a selector element, and that "selected" and "not_selected" are user supplied drawables (like an image). Is there a way of using the platform's check boxes instead? — Diederik, Feb 17 '11 at 14:33
To use the platform's check boxes, remove the background attribute and ignore point (3). Although the boxes appear for me, unfortunately i am not able to actually check the box. I can do it only through the xml by using android:checked attribute to set a default value, but cannot change it at run time by touching it. — faizal, Jun 02 '14 at 10:36

score 15 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 07 '13 at 09:22

Step 1: setAdapter to your listview.

 listView.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_multiple_choice, GENRES));

Step 2: set choice mode for listview .The second line of below code represents which checkbox should be checked.

listView.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE);
listView.setItemChecked(2, true);

listView.setOnItemClickListener(this);



 private static  String[] GENRES = new String[] {
        "Action", "Adventure", "Animation", "Children", "Comedy", "Documentary", "Drama",
        "Foreign", "History", "Independent", "Romance", "Sci-Fi", "Television", "Thriller"
    };

Step 3: Checked views are returned in SparseBooleanArray, so you might use the below code to get key or values.The below sample are simply displayed selected names in a single String.

@Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapter, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3)
    {

    SparseBooleanArray sp=getListView().getCheckedItemPositions();

    String str="";
    for(int i=0;i<sp.size();i++)
    {
        str+=GENRES[sp.keyAt(i)]+",";
    }
    Toast.makeText(this, ""+str, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

    }

if you unselect an item, it will continue to appear in the toast. So.. if you select 3 items, then unselect them and chose 1 other item, the string will contain all 4 items, even just 1 item is selected.I cannot explain why, because we always have a new String="". Does the `getCheckedItemPositions()` stores all the values that has been selected? but it would be strange. It would be nice to solve this , I have tried, but up to know I couldn't solve it. So, if somebody know, please share the solution. — AlexAndro, Jul 30 '12 at 14:12

AlexAndro · Answer 3 · 2013-01-28T20:36:41.223

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This example stores the values you have checked and displays them in a toast. And it updates when you uncheck items http://android-coding.blogspot.ro/2011/09/listview-with-multiple-choice.html

edited Jan 28 '13 at 20:36

answered Jul 31 '12 at 13:18

AlexAndro

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 04 '14 at 20:43

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To "update" the Toast message after unchecking some items, just put this line inside the for loop:

if (sp.valueAt(i))

so it results:

for(int i=0;i<sp.size();i++)
{
    if (sp.valueAt(i))
        str+=names[sp.keyAt(i)]+",";
}

answered Jun 04 '14 at 20:43

Mario Velasco

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 28 '17 at 06:14

It's very simple,

listViewRequests.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int i, long l) {
                    **AppCompatCheckedTextView checkBox = (AppCompatCheckedTextView) view;**
                    Log.i("CHECK",checkBox.isChecked()+""+checkBox.getText().toString());**

               }
            });

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 02 '20 at 08:46

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In listView you can use it by Adapter

ArrayAdapter<String> adapterChannels = new ArrayAdapter<>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_multiple_choice);

answered Jan 02 '20 at 08:46

H.Fa8

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score 0 · Answer 7 · edited Feb 28 '13 at 08:14

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You have to select the option in ArrayAdapter:

ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>
    (this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_single_choice, countries);

edited Feb 28 '13 at 08:14

Carsten

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answered Feb 28 '13 at 08:09

Baadsah

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Mar 10 '17 at 14:26

Best way is to have a contextual action bar with listview on multiselect, You can make listview as multiselect using the following code

listview.setChoiceMode(AbsListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE_MODAL);

And now set multichoice listener for Listview ,You can see the complete implementation of multiselect listview at Android multi select listview

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Feb 08 '11 at 10:59

and to get it :

public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
                int position, long id) {

                Log.d(getLocalClassName(), "onItemClick(" + view + ","
                        + position + "," + id + ")");
        }
    });

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Mar 25 '18 at 19:13

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I would advice to check the logic of ListActivity according to what is needed could be the best way not to lose much time

link

developer.android

answered Mar 25 '18 at 19:13

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