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Android studio: How to dynamically display and refresh a custom list which is horizontally and vertically oriented at the same time?

So I've been developping an app on Android Studio and at some point I need to display couples of values composed of texts and images but I have some issues with the display.
Let's say here that I want a list of fruit names associated with a picture, I'd like to display it that way :
Example
Each image and its related text is in linearlayout, so it's a list of linearlayouts.
The "add fruit" button open an alerdialog where the text and the image can be chosen, by clicking the 'ok' button in the alertdialog the name and the image are saved in a sqlLite database (which I already have programmed), and the linearlayout has to be added in the current list as the dialog is dismissed.
So the issue here is that:
I don't really know how to dynamically display each one of these linearlayouts in this specific order.
I don't know how to make it so that when a new fruit is added and the dialog dismissed, the list in the activity is refreshed directly.
I've been thinking of using a listview but listviews are only horizontal OR vertical but in this case I kind of need a mix of both.
Another idea was to delete the layout containing all the linearlayouts (all the list) when a new fruit was added, and then take my database to create all the linearlayouts again. But dynamically I don't think it will work, the refresh won't be done (?)
My last idea was to create a fragment and use my database in the onCreateView method to display every elements. And to refresh it, I'll just detach and attach again the fragment to the activity each time I add a new element.
I don't think my ideas are the optimal or even a correct way to do it, I've been struggling with it for a while. If you have any suggestions or ideas to help me, it would be great :)

Search bar for searching

I want to create a search bar for my app. The app has many activities linked via buttons for each activity. I want a search bar to search for those buttons in order to open that activity. The search bar should be placed in the title bar. If searched for the text on the button only that button should be shown...plz help...new to android development

Use a list view with button effect instead of buttons. You can then filter the array list you are passing to the list view.

changing listview item elements

I'm new to Android development.
I need to make a listview with text and icon audio player. The icon has three States, "download", "downloading", "play" and "pause". The idea is that when populating the listview, set the "download" icon if the track is not downloaded and "play" if the track is downloaded". If a person clicks the "download" button the icon should be updated to "downloading" to start the download, then when complete, you should see the icon "play". If the user presses the "play" icon for this element should be updated to "pause".
I can't change the icon . I tried to change them in onItemClickListener and make the onClick in the getView method in adapter, but when scrolling the icons changed to the old. And if you select multiple items in the list, then change all the icons, and I need to change only one, for playing of the track.
I didn't show the code because there is nothing that can be corrected. - all wrong

if you have your own adapter try using a method notifyDataSetChanged();

That is happening due to recycling of views. If you click on an item and you will see multiple items clicked.
Use RecyclerView instead of listView, which will handle recycling by its own and its ViewHolder class takes care of the issue you are having.
And don't forget to notify the recyclerView adapter whenever you make some change in data source (i.e. arraylist)
Check out this example...
Hope it helps
http://hmkcode.com/android-simple-recyclerview-widget-example/

How to create a list menu in Android

I would like to create a simple 4-item list menu as a main menu for an application. My first thought is to create a ListView but I know that ListView objects use an adapter to display their items. I don't want to use an adapter as there is no data to display, just new activities, which the list options lead to. What are the alternatives available to tackle this problem?

Several ways to go about it. You could build a list with objects to create your own menu.
I don't want to use an adapter as there is no data to display, just new activities, which the list options lead to.
I think you are misunderstanding something. Every class in java extends Object. So you could have a list of activities and by clicking on that item you could start the activity. Here is a good tutorial where he is doing exactly that (videos 18 - 21) Hosted by TheNewBoston, and made by MyBringBack
It is not wrong to go about it the way you originally thought, but for ease of use, design, and consistency, I suggest implementing one of Android's menus:
Navigation drawer
Options menu
Action bar menu
Context menu
Popup menu.
Last few can be found here

The tags for the GridView items are applying only when they are visible?

I have a GridView which is scrollable: only some of the items will be displayed and only after scrolling down the GridView. We can see the other items. The problem is, I am setting the tags for all the items in the GridView, but by tracing the LogCat I came to know that it is not accepting to set the tags for the non-visible items in the GridView(I mean the items which are inside the grid, but at that time are not on the screen)
Before scrolling:
After scrolling:
Only after scrolling down the other items the tags are applied.
How can I set the tags for all the items of the grid, even if they are on the screen or off the screen?

Your problem is that you set the Tag in the getView method and this method is only called by the framework when the view need to be displayed.
Don't know exactly what you need to do with the view tag, but I think that instead of trying to get the data from a non-displayed view, you must get it from your ImageAdapter (ia.imageid[]).
EDIT:
To answer more preciselly to your question:
How can I set the tags for all the items of the grid, even if they are on the screen or off the screen?
As soon as the view doesn't always exists when it is not displayed: you cannot do it.
I suggest you to explain why you need those tags... may be you can use an alternative solution than view tag to accomplish your final needs.
Anyway, if you really need to have tag on view that aren't displayed yet:
Initialize a view array in onCreate method.
Populate this array with all your views (and set the tag)
modify getView method of your adapter to return the view from your array of view instead of creating the view.
Please note that I don't recommend this solution since it will consume more resources.

Finally myself i got the solution for my question.Thank you for all who gave their valuable suggestions.
Thank you #ben75
i checked the position of present clicked item and then applied the tag so if the user want to select the item which is presently not on the focus he has to scroll the grid and then have to select the item and then only the tag will be applied.