ANDROID - Adding a longclick listener to the list items

You can also add a LongItemClickListener to the View. For this receive the ListView via thegetListVIew() method and set the LongItemClickListener via the setOnItemLongClickListener() method.

package de.vogella.android.listactivity;

import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemLongClickListener;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class MyList extends ListActivity {

  

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
    super.onCreate(icicle);
    // Create an array of Strings, that will be put to our ListActivity
    String[] names = new String[] { "Linux", "Windows7", "Eclipse", "Suse",
        "Ubuntu", "Solaris", "Android", "iPhone" };
    ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new MyPerformanceArrayAdapter(this, names);
    setListAdapter(adapter);
    ListView list = getListView();
    list.setOnItemLongClickListener(new OnItemLongClickListener() {

      @Override
      public boolean onItemLongClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
          int position, long id) {
        Toast.makeText(MyList.this,
            "Item in position " + position + " clicked",
            Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        // Return true to consume the click event. In this case the
        // onListItemClick listener is not called anymore.
        return true;
      }
    });
  }

  @Override
  protected void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {
    super.onListItemClick(l, v, position, id);
    // Get the item that was clicked
    Object o = this.getListAdapter().getItem(position);
    String keyword = o.toString();
    Toast.makeText(this, "You selected: " + keyword, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
        .show();

  }

}