notifyDataSetChanged example

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I m trying to use in my Android Application the notifyDataSetChanged   method for an ArrayAdapter but it doesn t work for me    I found as answer here  that notifyDataSetChanged   should run in the main thread  but there was no example for that   Could anybody send an example or at least a link

User · Answer

I had the same problem and I prefer not to replace the entire ArrayAdapter with a new instance continuously. Thus I have the AdapterHelper do the heavy lifting somewhere else.

Add this where you would normally (try to) call notify

new AdapterHelper().update((ArrayAdapter)adapter, new ArrayList<Object>(yourArrayList));
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();

AdapterHelper class

public class AdapterHelper {
    @SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
    public void update(ArrayAdapter arrayAdapter, ArrayList<Object> listOfObject){
        arrayAdapter.clear();
        for (Object object : listOfObject){
            arrayAdapter.add(object);
        }
    }
}

User · Answer

I recently wrote on this topic  though this post it old  I thought it will be helpful to someone who wants to know how to implement BaseAdapter notifyDataSetChanged   step by step and in a correct way   Please follow How to correctly implement BaseAdapter notifyDataSetChanged   in Android or the newer blog BaseAdapter notifyDataSetChanged

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For an ArrayAdapter  notifyDataSetChanged only works if you use the add    insert    remove    and clear   on the Adapter     When an ArrayAdapter is constructed  it holds the reference for the List that was passed in   If you were to pass in a List that was a member of an Activity  and change that Activity member later  the ArrayAdapter is still holding a reference to the original List   The Adapter does not know you changed the List in the Activity   Your choices are    Use the functions of the ArrayAdapter to modify the underlying List  add    insert    remove    clear    etc   Re-create the ArrayAdapter with the new List data   Uses a lot of resources and garbage collection   Create your own class derived from BaseAdapter and ListAdapter that allows changing of the underlying List data structure  Use the notifyDataSetChanged   every time the list is updated  To call it on the UI-Thread  use the runOnUiThread   of Activity  Then  notifyDataSetChanged   will work

User · Answer

You can use the runOnUiThread   method as follows   If you re not using a ListActivity  just adapt the code to get a reference to your ArrayAdapter   final ArrayAdapter adapter     ArrayAdapter getListAdapter     runOnUiThread new Runnable         public void run             adapter notifyDataSetChanged

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I know this is a late response but I was facing a similar issue and I managed to solve it by using notifyDataSetChanged   in the right place    So my situation was as follows    I had to update a listview in an action bar tab  fragment  with contents returned from a completely different activity  Initially however  the listview would not reflect any changes  However  when I clicked another tab and then returned to the desired tab the listview would be updated with the correct content from the other activity  So to solve this I used notifyDataSetChanged   of the action bar adapter in the code of the activity which had to return the data   This is the code snippet which I used in the activity     Override public boolean onOptionsItemSelected MenuItem item         switch  item getItemId                   case R id action new forward               FragmentTab2 mListAdapter notifyDataSetChanged     this updates the adapter in my action bar tab             Intent ina   new Intent getApplicationContext    MainActivity class               ina putExtra  stra   values1               startActivity ina     This is the code to start the parent activity of my action bar tab fragment             This activity would return some data to FragmentTab2 and it would directly update my listview in FragmentTab2   Hope someone finds this useful

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