Order TableLayout column values programmatically

Question

I have a TableRow containing String data displayed as minutes. I want to order/sort that column data programmatically. Is that possible? I really need that feature.

Answer 1

The image you showed does not look like a single TableRow; in fact, it looks like 10.

Regardless, what you should do is keep a list of some kind with your data, and keep it sorted. An easy way to do this is keep a list of integers representing your minutes (in this case, 76, 84, 46, 68, 8, 9, 78, 78, 68, 46), then sort it. You can then re-fill your layout objects (whatever they are) with the sorted data.

ArrayList<Integer> minutes = new ArrayList<Integer>();
minutes.add(76);
minutes.add(84);
// ...
minutes.add(46);
Collections.sort(minutes);

Then, if you have your views already set up, you can reference each one using findViewById(), and call setText() on them to give them information, or create the views based on the data:

ViewGroup group = ...; // Might be a TableRow, LinearLayout, whatever...
group.removeAllViews();
for (Integer i : minutes) {
    // Create a new view
    yourView.setText(i + "'"); // Put it in 0' format
    group.addView(yourView);
}

Then, your group layout will contain a set of views representing your minutes array.

For what it's worth, it would be better to use a ListView here; this is what it was designed for.