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Android Implementing Designs for Android Updating Other GridViews Updating the Recipients Activity

grid view

Finally, set this view as the empty view for mGridView.

InviteActivity.java
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.ListView;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;
import android.widget.GridView;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class InviteActivity extends Activity {

    /*
     * Some code has been omitted for brevity!
     */
    public MenuItem mInviteMenuItem;
    public GridView mGridView();     <----- MY EMPTY VIEW
    public TextView mEmptyTextView;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.player_grid);

        mGridView = (GridView)findViewById(R.id.gridView);
        mGridView.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE);
        mGridView.setOnItemClickListener(mOnItemClickListener);

      mEmptyTextView = (TextView) findViewById(android.R.id.empty);


    }

    public OnItemClickListener mOnItemClickListener = new OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {

            // Start by adding code in here!
    if(mGridView.getCheckedItemCount()>0) {
              mInviteMenuItem.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            }
          else {
             mInviteMenuItem.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
          }

        }       
    };
}

1 Answer

Hello,

You're close to completing this challenge. Just a few things you need to do to finish it.

First, you need to remove the text <----- MY EMPTY VIEW. If you want that to be a comment use //<----- MY EMPTY VIEW. "//" denotes a single line comment so anything after it on the line will not be read by the compier.

Second, your mGridView(); should be defining a variable so you want to remove the parenthesis.

At this point, if you were to submit it, you would actually get a very helpful bummer message. Which all you need to do now is use the setEmptyView(View v) of your GridVIew to set mEmptyTextView as the empty view. Please let us know if you need more assistance and we will try to help further. Also, if you do need assistance, please provide updated code so we can assist you from where you currently are at.