How to use commonsware with regular activity

Question

I have an already established activity that must extend another activity so I'd much rather use commonsware drag and drop TouchListView class with my existing activity rather than extend ListActivity. However, I can't find an example of how to do this. In my activity's xml I have included:

<com.test.dragdrop.TouchListView
            xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
            xmlns:tlv="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.test.activities" 
            android:id="@android:id/list"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:drawSelectorOnTop="false"
            tlv:normal_height="64dip"
            tlv:expanded_height="128dip"
            tlv:grabber="@+id/icon"
            tlv:remove_mode="slideRight"
                    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" 
                    android:layout_centerVertical="true" 
                    android:layout_below="@id/menu_bar_top_include"
                    android:layout_above="@id/footerbar_lists"
                    android:cacheColorHint="#0000" 
                    android:paddingTop="2dip"/>

Now, I'm not sure how translate this to creating it dynamically in my actvities code . I assume I have to place the code in onCreate() and create a RelativeLayout wrapper and put the TouchListView class inside of it, but again I'm not sure when it comes to a custom view class... any one do this before?

Note: I also tried to simply use :

TouchListView tlv = (TouchListView) findViewById(R.id.list);

but I get compiler errors:
--- for some reason the compiler cannot find "R.id.list" --- Is this because its inside a custom view? Is there some other way this needs to be specified?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 05 '12 at 12:20

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There is nothing different about using TouchListView in a regular Activity than using ListView in a regular Activity. All you do is call findViewById() to get the ListView and call setAdapter() on the ListView to associate your desired ListAdapter with it.

answered Jan 05 '12 at 12:20

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Thanks fo the response. Yes, that what I tried to do but I get compiler errors: TouchListView tlv = (TouchListView) findViewById(R.id.list); --- for some reason the compiler cannot find "R.id.list" --- Is this because its inside a custom view? Is there some other way this needs to be specified? – Mike6679 Jan 05 '12 at 16:18
@Mike: Then update your question and provide your compiler errors. – CommonsWare Jan 05 '12 at 16:20
I'm open to any suggestions at this point whether it be getting findViewById() to work OR creating an instance of TouchListView and setting all the parameters dynamically -thanks. – Mike6679 Jan 05 '12 at 22:38
@Mike: Use `android.R.id.list` instead of `R.id.list`. – CommonsWare Jan 05 '12 at 23:07

How to use commonsware with regular activity

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