CursorAdapter bindView disorder

Question

i'm trying to populate a ListView from a SQliteDatabase with Cursor and Loader, but all items are displayed in total disorder

My CursorAdapter class

@Override
public void bindView(View view, Context context, Cursor c) {
    ItemHolder holder = null;
    try{
        holder = (ItemHolder) view.getTag();
    } catch (Exception e){
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    if(holder != null){
        System.out.println("b "+holder.position);
    }

}

@Override
public View newView(Context context, Cursor c, ViewGroup parent) {
    LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    View nView = inflater.inflate(layoutID, parent, false);

    ItemHolder holder = new ItemHolder();
    System.out.println("a "+c.getPosition());
    holder.position = c.getPosition();
    nView.setTag(holder);

    return nView;
}

Logcat output after a single full scroll return (a is position in newView() and b in bindView() )

a 0
b 0
a 1
b 1
a 2
b 2
b 0

instead of

a 0
b 0
a 1
b 1
a 2
b 2
a 3
b 3

A check of the cursor in the adapter return correct data

c.moveToFirst();
    for(int i = 0; i < c.getCount(); i++){
        System.out.println(i+" "+c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(COL_NAME)));
        c.moveToNext();
    }

I use the latest anroid.support.v4 library

Answer 1

You need to add an ORDER BY clause to your SQL statement, that sorts the result of your query. Check out the documentation or this example for more details.

Sample:

SELECT * FROM <table> ORDER BY <column>;

p.s.: if you are using database.query(...) you can add parameter for the sort column here (see orderBy):

query(String table, String[] columns, String selection, 
      String[] selectionArgs, String groupBy, String having, String orderBy) 

Check out the Android documentation.