ListView的工作原理

一个很好的ListView的例子

网址是：

http://www.myandroidsolutions.com/2012/07/19/android-listview-with-viewholder-tutorial/

关键代码：

public class MyCustomAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
    private ArrayList<String> mListItems;
    private LayoutInflater mLayoutInflater;
 
    public MyCustomAdapter(Context context, ArrayList<String> arrayList){
 
        mListItems = arrayList;
 
        //get the layout inflater
        mLayoutInflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    }
 
    @Override
    public int getCount() {
        //getCount() represents how many items are in the list
        return mListItems.size();
    }
 
    @Override
    //get the data of an item from a specific position
    //i represents the position of the item in the list
    public Object getItem(int i) {
        return null;
    }
 
    @Override
    //get the position id of the item from the list
    public long getItemId(int i) {
        return 0;
    }
 
    @Override
 
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup viewGroup) {
 
        // create a ViewHolder reference
        ViewHolder holder;
 
        //check to see if the reused view is null or not, if is not null then reuse it
        if (convertView== null) {</span>
            holder = new ViewHolder();
            convertView= mLayoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.list_item, null);
            holder.itemName = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.list_item_text_view);
 
            // the setTag is used to store the data within this view
            convertView.setTag(holder);
        } else {
            // the getTag returns the viewHolder object set as a tag to the view
            holder = (ViewHolder)convertView.getTag();
        }
 
        //get the string item from the position "position" from array list to put it on the TextView
        String stringItem = mListItems.get(position);
        if (stringItem != null) {
            if (holder.itemName != null) {
                //set the item name on the TextView
                holder.itemName.setText(stringItem);
            }
        }
 
        //this method must return the view corresponding to the data at the specified position.
        return convertView;
 
    }
 
    /**
     * Static class used to avoid the calling of "findViewById" every time the getView() method is called,
     * because this can impact to your application performance when your list is too big. The class is static so it
     * cache all the things inside once it's created.
     */
    private static class ViewHolder {
 
        protected TextView itemName;
 
    }
}

ListView的工作流程

ListView在开始绘制的时候，首先调用getCount()函数，根据它的返回值来获得ListView的长度。然后根据这个长度，调用getView逐渐绘制每一行。

可以看出getView是实现ListView的重点方法,该方法实现的是Adapter接口中getView方法

public abstract View getView(int position,View convertView,ViewGroup parent)

position:要从适配器中获得的视图位置

convertView:尽可能的重用旧视图，在使用之前必须检查是否为空以及是否是合适的类型，如果不能将视图转换正确显示数据，将会重新创建视图。

viewGroup 该视图最终会与指定位置的数据视图联系在一起。

好像还是不容易理解。

一个屏幕上只能显示有限的item，而其他可见的Item此时在Recycler中，这时候convertView为null。

当item1滚出屏幕时，一个新的Item从屏幕低端滚进来的时候，这时候convertView的值就不为空了，经测试，它的值恰好是滚出屏幕的item1的值。这样的话，就比较容易理解convertView了，就是当convertView中不为空，只需要设定新的数据，然后返回convertView的话，就不需要重新定义视图了。