I wanted to make my markup for ListView , namely add buttons to the list items. I did this: in the layout I created a listview.xml file with the contents:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" android:orientation="horizontal" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:id="@+id/listView"> <TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1" android:layout_height="41dp" android:id="@+id/text1" /> <ImageButton android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" app:srcCompat="@drawable/icon_share" android:id="@+id/imageButton3" android:background="@drawable/circle_button_white" android:layout_marginRight="5dp" /> <ImageButton android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" app:srcCompat="@drawable/icon_search" android:id="@+id/imageButton2" android:background="@drawable/circle_button_white" /> </LinearLayout> 

Further in the code I wrote the following:

 arrayAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(MainActivity.this, R.layout.listview, rusArr); 

An error:

 E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: ru.test.proj2, PID: 3761 java.lang.IllegalStateException: ArrayAdapter requires the resource ID to be a TextView at android.widget.ArrayAdapter.createViewFromResource(ArrayAdapter.java:401) at android.widget.ArrayAdapter.getView(ArrayAdapter.java:371) at android.widget.AbsListView.obtainView(AbsListView.java:2362) at android.widget.ListView.makeAndAddView(ListView.java:1970) at android.widget.ListView.fillDown(ListView.java:704) at android.widget.ListView.fillFromTop(ListView.java:765) at android.widget.ListView.layoutChildren(ListView.java:1744) at android.widget.AbsListView.onLayout(AbsListView.java:2161) at android.view.View.layout(View.java:17523) at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5612) at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:323) at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:261) at android.view.View.layout(View.java:17523) at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5612) at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:323) at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:261) at android.view.View.layout(View.java:17523) at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5612) at android.support.v7.widget.ActionBarOverlayLayout.onLayout(ActionBarOverlayLayout.java:437) at android.view.View.layout(View.java:17523) at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5612) at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:323) at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:261) at android.view.View.layout(View.java:17523) at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5612) at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1741) at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1585) at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1494) at android.view.View.layout(View.java:17523) at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5612) at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:323) at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:261) at com.android.internal.policy.DecorView.onLayout(DecorView.java:724) at android.view.View.layout(View.java:17523) at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5612) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performLayout(ViewRootImpl.java:2342) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:2069) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1246) at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:6301) at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:871) at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:683) at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:619) at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:857) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6077) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:865) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:755) Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.widget.LinearLayout cannot be cast to android.widget.TextView at android.widget.ArrayAdapter.createViewFromResource(ArrayAdapter.java:388) at android.widget.ArrayAdapter.getView(ArrayAdapter.java:371) at android.widget.AbsListView.obtainView(AbsListView.java:2362) at android.widget.ListView.makeAndAddView(ListView.java:1970) at android.widget.ListView.fillDown(ListView.java:704) at android.widget.ListView.fillFromTop(ListView.java:765) at android.widget.ListView.layoutChildren(ListView.java:1744) at android.widget.AbsListView.onLayout(AbsListView.java:2161) at android.view.View.layout(View.java:17523) at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5612) at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:323) at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:261) at android.view.View.layout(View.java:17523) at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5612) at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:323) at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:261) at android.view.View.layout(View.java:17523) at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5612) at android.support.v7.widget.ActionBarOverlayLayout.onLayout(ActionBarOverlayLayout.java:437) at android.view.View.layout(View.java:17523) at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5612) at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:323) at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:261) at android.view.View.layout(View.java:17523) at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5612) at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1741) at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1585) at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1494) at android.view.View.layout(View.java:17523) at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5612) at android.widget.FrameLayout.layoutChildren(FrameLayout.java:323) at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:261) at com.android.internal.policy.DecorView.onLayout(DecorView.java:724) at android.view.View.layout(View.java:17523) at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:5612) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performLayout(ViewRootImpl.java:2342) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:2069) at android.view.ViewRootImpl.doTraversal(ViewRootImpl.java:1246) at android.view.ViewRootImpl$TraversalRunnable.run(ViewRootImpl.java:6301) at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:871) at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:683) at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:619) at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:857) at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:751) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6077) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:865) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:755) 

    1 answer 1

    When creating an ArrayAdapter , the markup file specified by the second constructor argument must consist of only one TextView .

    If you have your own markup file for the ListView element, then you need to create your own adapter. You can read more about this, for example, here .

    In general, I would recommend using RecyclerView instead of ListView , because it is more flexible (it was he who replaced ListView ).

    • And for my case how to be? so that the buttons were also - Michael
    • @ Michael, Updated the answer. - post_zeew
    • Thank. And such a question. for android version 4.0.3 will RecyclerView work? - Michael
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      RecyclerView , RecyclerView is in the support library android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView , as its name suggests, it can be used starting from version 7 of the API, that is, from Android 2.1. - post_zeew