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Android Android Lists and Adapters (2015) Custom ListViews Creating a Custom List Adapter

Posted by Niravkumar Patel
Niravkumar Patel
2,277 Points

not able to setText for titleTextView in a task

public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    // some code omitted
    Book book = mBooks[position];
    holder.titleTextView.setText(book.getTitle(mBooks));
}

where I have made mistake can anyone help me figure that out?

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

I can't find the challenge you're trying to do but I think there may be an issue in your second line.

You're asking to getText from the array mBooks. I think you want to use the Book object, book that you created using mBooks[position]. I think you can just say book.getTitle() as that will return the property - there's no need to pass it a parameter?

So that line would look like:

holder.titleTextView.setText(book.getTitle());

(I'm not clear where holder comes from or what it is - I'm assuming it is part of the View)

Which challenge/task are you doing? I'll see if I can help out when I can see that.

Steve.