[android-developers] Recommendations for variable length ListBox

All of the examples of the use of ListView and similar controls that I
can find assume a fixed number of field names coded into @strings or
similar, and retrieved through R.layout functions.

I want to dynamically create ListViews, Linear Layouts, Spinners etc
of variable length, and contents determined at run time.

I assume this is possible. Various appraoches occur to me:

Extend ListView with a custom creator that pre-populates with the
runtime determined field names. http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-listview.html
gives a hint on how to do it, whilst not directly addressing the
question.

I could try and take out the requirement to go through R.layout, and
directly reference some other data structure

And some others.

However, this must be a very common design pattern, can anyone tell me
the recommended approach for allocating the number of items in (say) a
List View and their content at runtime ?

Thanks

Peter Webb

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