Taking all items from listview to textview on click

Question

im a beginner in android/java programming and im trying to retrieve the element from a listview and put them in a textview.I know you can set text to a textview using settext but I dont know how to retrieve element from my listview(they are all strings) and put them in my textview

thank you

get the adapter from the list view. The adapter gives you access to the data presented in the ListView — EJK, Nov 05 '14 at 18:00
See my answer below. I extract the list content into a StingBuffer and then apply it to the textview by calling the setText method on the textView. — EJK, Nov 05 '14 at 18:58

EJK · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-05T18:56:48.643

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StringBuffer allItems = new StringBuffer();

Adapter adapter = listView.getAdapter();
for (int i=0; i<adapter.getCount(); i++) {
    Object item = adapter.getItem(i);
    allItems.append(item.toString());
    allItems.append(", ");
}

textView.setText(allItems.toString());

edited Nov 05 '14 at 18:56

answered Nov 05 '14 at 18:03

EJK

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thank you, however I get error "The method add(String) is undefined for the type StringBuffer" at the ".add" statement? – Phil_oneil Nov 05 '14 at 18:55
oops - it should be "append". I'll update the answer. – EJK Nov 05 '14 at 18:56
thanks a lot! and is it possible to make that with content of 2 listview? – Phil_oneil Nov 05 '14 at 18:59
Yes, you can put whatever content you want in the string buffer. – EJK Nov 05 '14 at 19:00

Taking all items from listview to textview on click

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