How to get all item names in getview method in side base adapter before scorlling in Android

Question

In my application I am fetching all the images and names from a MySQL server database to the Android mobile. If the emulator screen is HVGA, only five images and names are getting displayed. In logcat also only five names are getting printed. When I scroll the screen, how many names I can see on the screen only that much names are getting printed. Instead of that, all the names have to get printed before scrolling.

This my Java code:

public class VegdishesListview extends BaseAdapter {
    String qrimage;
    Bitmap bmp, resizedbitmap;
    Bitmap[] bmps;
    Activity activity = null;
    private LayoutInflater inflater;

    private ImageView[] mImages;
    String[] itemimage;
    TextView[] tv;
    String itemname,price,desc;
    String[] itemnames;
    String[] prices;
    String[] descs;
    HashMap<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();

    public VegdishesListview(Context context, JSONArray imageArrayJson) {
        //inflater = (LayoutInflater)activity.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        //  imageLoader=new ImageLoader(activity);
        inflater=LayoutInflater.from(context);
        this.mImages = new ImageView[imageArrayJson.length()];
        this.bmps = new Bitmap[imageArrayJson.length()];
        this.itemnames = new String[imageArrayJson.length()];
        this.prices=new String[imageArrayJson.length()];
        this.descs=new String[imageArrayJson.length()];
        try {
            for (int i = 0; i < imageArrayJson.length(); i++) {
                JSONObject image = imageArrayJson.getJSONObject(i);
                qrimage = image.getString("itemimage");
                itemname = image.getString("itemname");
                price=image.getString("price");
                desc=image.getString("itemdesc");

                itemnames[i] = itemname;
                prices[i]=price;
                descs[i]=desc;

                byte[] qrimageBytes = Base64.decode(qrimage.getBytes());

                bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(qrimageBytes, 0,
                                                    qrimageBytes.length);
                int width = 100;
                int height = 100;
                resizedbitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bmp, width, height,
                                                          true);
                bmps[i] = bmp;

                mImages[i] = new ImageView(context);
                mImages[i].setImageBitmap(resizedbitmap);

                mImages[i].setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_START);

                // tv[i].setText(itemname);
            }
            System.out.println(map);
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            // TODO: handle exception
        }
    }

    public int getCount() {
        return mImages.length;
    }

    public Object getItem(int position) {
        return position;
    }

    public long getItemId(int position) {
        return position;
    }


    public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        View vi=convertView;
        vi = inflater.inflate(R.layout.vegdisheslistview, null);

        TextView text=(TextView)vi.findViewById(R.id.vegdishestext);
        ImageView image=(ImageView)vi.findViewById(R.id.vegdishesimage);
        TextView text1=(TextView)vi.findViewById(R.id.vegdishesprice);
        TextView text2=(TextView)vi.findViewById(R.id.vegdishesdesc);
        image.setImageBitmap(bmps[position]);
        text.setText(itemnames[position]);
        text1.setText(prices[position]);
        text2.setText(descs[position]);
        System.out.println(itemnames[position]);

        return vi;
    }

When I am scrolling means how many itemnames can view that many item I can print here. How do I print all itemnames instead of scrolling?

Answer 1

As you are actually storing the names as a member field of your adapter class, you could print them inside the constructor, just iterating over the array.