Custom ListView code...

To make a custom ListView here we will use two XML layout.One is the main layout,where the ListView widget is taken and another is simple_list XML,where a TextView with a background.The ListView items will be shown above this TextView.So the code of main is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >
<TextView 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/hello"
    />
<ListView android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:id="@+id/statelist"></ListView>
</LinearLayout>

And the code of simple_list.xml is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:padding="1dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content">
   
    <TextView android:id="@+id/toptext" android:gravity="center_vertical" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:padding="5dip" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:textColor="#000000" android:background="@drawable/textfield" android:focusable="true"/>

</LinearLayout>

Here in the drawable folder of the project we take a  image that is linked for the TextView background.In this project the image name is "textfield".(Remember,always give the image name a lower case name with no special character and image format should be png.).

Now it is time for the code.For this we take a array of string with different strings.(Here we use the states of USA).Now watch the code carefully:

package com.custom.list;