Android - Display Image Caption Below Images in Gridview

Question

Hello -

I am utilizing a version of the "Grid View" example from the Android Developers site:

http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-gridview.html

And I would like to display a small text caption below each of the images.

Can someone please give an example of how this might be accomplished (i.e. what needs to be edited)?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Instead of an ImageAdapter returning ImageViews from getView(), you would need a TylerAdapter returning a LinearLayout or RelativeLayout for each cell, with the layout containing your ImageView and TextView caption.

Here is a free excerpt from one of books that illustrates stuff like this, albeit in the context of a ListView instead of a GridView. Those are both AdapterViews, and so the techniques are nearly identical.

Answer 2

After looking around some more, I found a great example of exactly how to do this here:

http://mytelcoit.com/2010/02/programming-android-create-icon-with-text-using-gridview-and-layout-inflater/