在做Android手机应用开发时， ListView是一个非常常用的控件。如何更新的使用它呢？其实SDK中的例子已经非常的完整了，并且能满足大多数的需要。
如果大家刚开始学习ListView，我建议大家还是直接先看官方的例子好了，这样大家会学到更好的写法以及养成更好的习惯。
下面就以EfficientAdapter为例，看看官网例子是如何使用ListView的：
请大家格外注意getView的书写方法，大家可能从网上也能找到过一些其它的例子，但是网上的写法和官网不同，建议大家采用官网例子的写法。
简要说明：要实现高效的Adapter，需要做两件事：
1. 重用getView()中的convertView，避免在不必要的时候inflating View。
2. 使用ViewHolder模式，避免在不必要的时候调用findViewById()。
顺便再提一句：若继承的是ListActivity，如果在layout xml里定义了ListView，那么该ListView的ID必须是"@id/android:list"，最好再包含一个ID是"@id/android:empty"的TextView，供ListView中没有数据时，显示提示文字用。如下所示：
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:paddingLeft="8dp" android:paddingRight="8dp"> <ListView android:id="@id/android:list" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:background="#00FF00" android:layout_weight="1" android:drawSelectorOnTop="false"/> <TextView android:id="@id/android:empty" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:background="#FF0000" android:text="No data"/> </LinearLayout>
官网EfficientAdapter例子如下：
/** * Demonstrates how to write an efficient list adapter. The adapter used in this example binds * to an ImageView and to a TextView for each row in the list. * * To work efficiently the adapter implemented here uses two techniques: * - It reuses the convertView passed to getView() to avoid inflating View when it is not necessary * - It uses the ViewHolder pattern to avoid calling findViewById() when it is not necessary * * The ViewHolder pattern consists in storing a data structure in the tag of the view returned by * getView(). This data structures contains references to the views we want to bind data to, thus * avoiding calls to findViewById() every time getView() is invoked. */public class List14 extends ListActivity { private static class EfficientAdapter extends BaseAdapter { private LayoutInflater mInflater; private Bitmap mIcon1; private Bitmap mIcon2; public EfficientAdapter(Context context) { // Cache the LayoutInflate to avoid asking for a new one each time. mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context); // Icons bound to the rows. mIcon1 = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), R.drawable.icon48x48_1); mIcon2 = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), R.drawable.icon48x48_2); } /** * The number of items in the list is determined by the number of speeches * in our array. * * @see android.widget.ListAdapter#getCount() */ public int getCount() { return DATA.length; } /** * Since the data comes from an array, just returning the index is * sufficent to get at the data. If we were using a more complex data * structure, we would return whatever object represents one row in the * list. * * @see android.widget.ListAdapter#getItem(int) */ public Object getItem(int position) { return position; } /** * Use the array index as a unique id. * * @see android.widget.ListAdapter#getItemId(int) */ public long getItemId(int position) { return position; } /** * Make a view to hold each row. * * @see android.widget.ListAdapter#getView(int, android.view.View, * android.view.ViewGroup) */ public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { // A ViewHolder keeps references to children views to avoid unneccessary calls // to findViewById() on each row. ViewHolder holder; // When convertView is not null, we can reuse it directly, there is no need // to reinflate it. We only inflate a new View when the convertView supplied // by ListView is null. if (convertView == null) { convertView = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.list_item_icon_text, null); // Creates a ViewHolder and store references to the two children views // we want to bind data to. holder = new ViewHolder(); holder.text = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.text); holder.icon = (ImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.icon); convertView.setTag(holder); } else { // Get the ViewHolder back to get fast access to the TextView // and the ImageView. holder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag(); } // Bind the data efficiently with the holder. holder.text.setText(DATA[position]); holder.icon.setImageBitmap((position & 1) == 1 ? mIcon1 : mIcon2); return convertView; } static class ViewHolder { TextView text; ImageView icon; } } @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setListAdapter(new EfficientAdapter(this)); } private static final String[] DATA = { "Abbaye de Belloc", "Abbaye du Mont des Cats", "Abertam"};}