Android ListView with CheckBox - The easy way

After MUCH Googling for a simple way to add a checkbox to a listview, I finally found an example in the ApiDemos that come with the SDK.

If your looking for this end outcome, then read on.

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The "Enabled" with CheckBox above is actually a ListView, within a regular Activity, with just one item in the list.

First, simply add the ListView to your xml layout (main.xml):

<ListView

        android:id="@+id/listView1"

        android:layout_width="match_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

</ListView>

Second, in your Activity, define a String[] of items (just one for me), and wire up the ListView into a variable. List so in my onCreate():

ListView listView1;

String[] listItems = { "Enabled" };

listView1 = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.listView1);

listView1.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_multiple_choice, listItems));

listView1.setItemsCanFocus(false);

listView1.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE);

Boom, thats it to make it show up in your Activity! Obviously, I also needed the "click" to work, so here's the code for the setOnItemClickListener():

listView1.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

@Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2, long arg3) {
CheckedTextView ctv = (CheckedTextView)arg1;

//do your stuff in here! 

}

});