Master Detail Flow .. selection on rotate broken after override of getView

Question

I'm trying to user the standard Master Detail Flow from Android Studio but I want to replace the List items on the left with a custom View.

I'm able to do this just fine by creating my own adapter and then overriding the getView() method and returning the custom Layout that I want to represent each item.

As soon as I do this though, the listSelector doesn't remember the selected item when I rotate the device. I'm obviously not implementing something correctly when I override the getView() method for the Adapter but I can't seem to figure out what.

Answer 1

You can save current position and restore it from onCreateView.

   private int currentCheckedPosition = 0;

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    ...
    listView.setOnItemClickListener(menuListener);
    listView.setItemChecked(currentCheckedPosition, true);
    ...
}

private AdapterView.OnItemClickListener menuListener = new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener()
{
    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
            listView.setItemChecked(currentCheckedPosition = position, true);
            ...
    }
};

UPD
This should work. Replace code in ItemListFragment

public class ItemListFragment extends Fragment
{
//    private int mActivatedPosition = ListView.INVALID_POSITION; //if you want to nothing selected on activity start
    private int mActivatedPosition = 0;//if you want to first item selected on activity start
    private ListView listView;

    @Override
    public void onAttach(Activity activity) {
        setRetainInstance(true);
        super.onAttach(activity);
        if (!(activity instanceof Callbacks)) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Activity must implement fragment's callbacks.");
        }
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        ContentAdapter mAdapter = new ContentAdapter(getActivity(), android.R.layout.simple_list_item_activated_1, android.R.id.text1, DummyContent.ITEMS);
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fancy_activity_list, container, false);
        listView = (ListView) view.findViewById(android.R.id.list);
        listView.setAdapter(mAdapter);
        listView.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_SINGLE);
        listView.setItemChecked(mActivatedPosition, true);
        listView.setOnItemClickListener(itemClickListener);
        return view;
    }
    private AdapterView.OnItemClickListener itemClickListener = new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener()
    {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
            listView.setItemChecked(mActivatedPosition = position, true);
            if (getActivity() instanceof Callbacks) {
                ((Callbacks) getActivity()).onItemSelected(DummyContent.ITEMS.get(position).id);
            }
        }
    };

    public interface Callbacks
    {
        void onItemSelected(String id);
    }
}

layout/fancy_activity_list_item

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="?android:attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Some Content Here"/>

</LinearLayout>

ContentAdapter

public class ContentAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<DummyContent.DummyItem>
{
    private LayoutInflater mInflater;

    public ContentAdapter(Context context, int resource, int textViewResourceId, List<DummyContent.DummyItem> objects) {
        super(context, resource, textViewResourceId, objects);
        mInflater = LayoutInflater.from(getContext());
    }


    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        View view;
        if (convertView == null) {
            view = mInflater.inflate(R.layout.fancy_activity_list_item, parent, false);
        } else {
            view = convertView;
        }
        DummyContent.DummyItem dummyItem = getItem(position);
        TextView textView = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.textView);
        textView.setText(dummyItem.content);
        return view;
    }
}

And you need to set minSdkVersion 14 in build.gradle
It needed to set android:background="?android:attr/activatedBackgroundIndicator" to list Item layout.