I want to be able to long click ListView cells so that an AlertDialog pops up and lets me delete a row in the ListView. However, the long click does not register. I even tried setting
userChatroomListView.setLongClickable(true)
below is the code.
userChatroomListView.setOnItemLongClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemLongClickListener() {
@Override
public boolean onItemLongClick(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int i, long l) {
AlertDialog.Builder adb = new AlertDialog.Builder(UserInfoActivity.this);
final String roomName = ((TextView) view).getText().toString();
adb.setTitle("Delete?");
adb.setMessage("Are you sure you want to delete " + roomName);
final int positionToRemove = i;
adb.setNegativeButton("No", null);
adb.setPositiveButton("Yes", new AlertDialog.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialogInterface, int i) {
userChatrooms.remove(positionToRemove);
userRoomsRef.child(roomName).removeValue();
BaseAdapter adapter = (BaseAdapter) userChatroomListView.getAdapter();
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}
});
return false;
}
and also did so in xml. What do I do now?
Here's the xml code:
<ListView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/ChatroomListTextView"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:id="@+id/userChatroomsListView"
android:background="#29dcc4"
android:longClickable="true"
>
</ListView>
I believe that your issue is that you are not showing the dialog.
You need to add adb.show()
after setting the onclick
listener and before returning.
userChatroomListView.setOnItemLongClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemLongClickListener() {
@Override
public boolean onItemLongClick(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int i, long l) {
AlertDialog.Builder adb = new AlertDialog.Builder(UserInfoActivity.this);
final String roomName = ((TextView) view).getText().toString();
adb.setTitle("Delete?");
adb.setMessage("Are you sure you want to delete " + roomName);
final int positionToRemove = i;
adb.setNegativeButton("No", null);
adb.setPositiveButton("Yes", new AlertDialog.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialogInterface, int i) {
userChatrooms.remove(positionToRemove);
userRoomsRef.child(roomName).removeValue();
BaseAdapter adapter = (BaseAdapter) userChatroomListView.getAdapter();
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}
});
adb.show();
return false;
}