I have a custom arrayadapter class that has 3 textviews: Request Title, Date and Latest Message. I call that class in my main activity and that reads from a textfile sitting in the phones memory. When I receive a message from my server, how can I change the Latest Message to the one from the server instead of the text file?
My Main Activity
listView = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.lv_requests);
    ra = new RequestAdapter(getApplicationContext(),R.layout.request_adapter);
    listView.setAdapter(ra);
    Date date = new Date();
    if(fileExists("requests")==true){
        try{
            BufferedReader inputReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(openFileInput("requests")));
            String in = null;
            while((in=inputReader.readLine())!=null){
                //localbroadcast manager update here
                String[] split = in.split(Pattern.quote("|"));
                String requestTitle = split[0];
                String requestDate = split[2];
                String latestMessage = split[3];
                String registrationID = split[1];
                String audioPath = split[4];
                String fileTitle = split[5];
                String textPath = "";
                Date convDate = convert(requestDate);
                Request newRequest = new Request(requestTitle,registrationID,convDate,latestMessage, audioPath,textPath,fileTitle);
                userReqs.add(newRequest);
                ra.add(newRequest);
            }
        }catch (IOException e){
            e.toString();
        }
The broadcast receiver on the same activity
private BroadcastReceiver onNotice = new BroadcastReceiver() {
    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
            String str = intent.getStringExtra("msg");
            String requestTitle = intent.getStringExtra("requestTitle");
            String latestMessage = intent.getStringExtra("latestMsg");
    }
};
Do I rewrite the line in the file and refresh the list?
 
    