Android - How to tap ListView item programmatically

Question

How to call ItemClickListener programmatically? listView.performItemClick() does not work. Is that possible?

Birr

performItemClick is supposed to work, there is probably something wrong with the way you use it – Monophthong

@cool dev have a look at my new answer – Gaff

Answer 1

mList.performItemClick(
    mList.getAdapter().getView(mActivePosition, null, null),
    mActivePosition,
    mList.getAdapter().getItemId(mActivePosition));

Where mActivePosition is your click position!

Endosmosis

this will actually create a new view just so performItemClick will work, yes it will work, but this will not be the same view as intended, getView in adapter is misleading, it actually creates a view, and listView is using it in order to populate the views and recycle them – Misgive

This won't create a view. mList.performItemClick(mList.getChildAt(mActivePosition), mActivePosition, mList.getAdapter().getItemId(mActivePosition)); – Menashem

@Arst, Thank you very much for a perfect solution. – Ranket

Answer 2

If you want to click/tap/select 3rd list item then.

listView.performItemClick(listView.getAdapter().getView(3, null, null), 3, listView.getItemIdAtPosition(3));

This worked perfectly for me.

Moiramoirai

Answer 3

Assign tag in the adapter to each View, and findviewByTag() this worked for me:

listView.performItemClick(listView.findViewWithTag(listView.getAdapter().getItem(selectedIndex)), selectedIndex, listView.getAdapter().getItemId(selectedIndex));

Also refer this answer.

Joeyjoffre

Answer 4

If you need it for testing purposes, then you can use Robotium ( http://code.google.com/p/robotium/ ).

You could also achieve what you want by calling the onClick method of the ClickController with the correct parameters.

Scraggy

But how do you use Robotium to do this? – Weatherbeaten

Ask robotium to tap the text inside the list item. – Scraggy

Answer 5

The answer is

listView1.performItemClick(listView1, 3, listView1.getItemIdAtPosition(3));

from the link

http://mantascode.com/?p=486

Registered

Answer 6

This will work!!

 listview.performItemClick(listview.getChildAt(position),
                    position,
                    listview.getChildAt(position).getId());

Nsf

Answer 7

You can set up an onItemClick listener for your list view via

listView.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void   onClick(View v) {
        //here you do something
    }
});

Magnificat

The question is "How to tap ListView item programmatically?" and not about getting list item click event. – Householder