android listview or scrollview: for a form with dynamic number of fields

Question

Let's say I need to take names of movies the person likes. I don't know how many he likes so I want to present him with just one text field. He can click a button and add more fields to fill. I can use ScrollView of course but should I think about using a ListView? If so, I can't seem to understand how. Please help

Answer 1

try this:

  public class TestingActivity extends ListActivity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */

EditText value;
    Button insert;

    ArrayList<String> data=new ArrayList<String>();
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    @Override

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.main);



          insert = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button2);
          value=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.value);
          insert.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                data.add(value.getText().toString());
                getListView().setAdapter(new  ArrayAdapter(getApplicationContext(), android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, data));

                    }
        });
          getListView().setAdapter(new  ArrayAdapter(getApplicationContext(), android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, data));

    }

        }

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:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >



    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="horizontal" >

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/value"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button2"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:text="insert" />
    </LinearLayout>

    <ListView
        android:id="@android:id/list"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:scrollingCache="false" >
    </ListView>

</LinearLayout>