How To Create A Gridview In Android

A GridView is a type of AdapterView that displays items in a two-dimensional scrolling grid. Items are inserted into this grid layout from a database or from an array. The adapter is used for displaying this data, setAdapter() method is used to join the adapter with GridView. The main function of the adapter in GridView is to fetch data from a database or array and insert each piece of data in an appropriate item that will be displayed in GridView. This is how the GridView structure looks like. Note that we are going to implement this project using theJava language.

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XML Attributes of GridView

android:numColumns: This attribute of GridView will be used to decide the number of columns that are to be displayed in Grid.
android:horizontalSpacing: This attribute is used to define the spacing between two columns of GridView.
android:verticalSpacing: This attribute is used to specify the spacing between two rows of GridView.

Example

Now let us see an example in which we will implement a simple GridView in Android App. In the GridView, we are now displaying the list of courses available on GeeksforGeeks.

Step 1: Creating a New Project

To create a new project in Android Studio please refer to How to Create/Start a New Project in Android Studio. Note that select Java as the programming language.

Step 2: Add google repository in the build.gradle file of the application project.

buildscript {

repositories {

google()

mavenCentral()

}

All Jetpack components are available in the Google Maven repository, include them in the build.gradle file

allprojects {

repositories {

google()

mavenCentral()

}

}

Step 3: Modify the activity_main.xml file

Add GridView to the activity_main.xml file. Below is the code for theactivity_main.xml file.

XML

<? xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8" ?>

< androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout

android:layout_width = "match_parent"

android:layout_height = "match_parent"

tools:context = ".MainActivity" >

< GridView

android:id = "@+id/idGVcourses"

android:layout_width = "match_parent"

android:layout_height = "match_parent"

android:horizontalSpacing = "6dp"

android:numColumns = "2"

android:verticalSpacing = "6dp" />

</ androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout >

Step 4: Create an XML layout file for each item of GridView

Create an XML file for each grid item to be displayed in GridView. Click on the app > res > layout > Right-Click > Layout Resource file and then name the file as card_item. Below is the code for thecard_item.xml file.

XML

<? xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8" ?>

< androidx.cardview.widget.CardView

android:layout_width = "match_parent"

android:layout_height = "120dp"

android:layout_gravity = "center"

android:layout_margin = "5dp"

app:cardCornerRadius = "5dp"

app:cardElevation = "5dp" >

< LinearLayout

android:layout_width = "match_parent"

android:layout_height = "wrap_content"

android:orientation = "vertical" >

< ImageView

android:id = "@+id/idIVcourse"

android:layout_width = "100dp"

android:layout_height = "100dp"

android:layout_gravity = "center"

android:src = "@mipmap/ic_launcher" />

< TextView

android:id = "@+id/idTVCourse"

android:layout_width = "match_parent"

android:layout_height = "wrap_content"

android:text = "@string/app_name"

android:textAlignment = "center" />

</ LinearLayout >

</ androidx.cardview.widget.CardView >

Step 5: Create a Modal Class for storing Data

Modal Class is the JAVA Class that handles data to be added in each GridView item of GridView. For Creating Modal Class.

Now click on app > java > apps package name > Right-Click on it.
Then Click on New > Java Class.
Name your Java Class file as CourseModel . Below is the code for the CourseModel .java file.

Java

public class CourseModel {

private String course_name;

private int imgid;

public CourseModel(String course_name, int imgid) {

this .course_name = course_name;

this .imgid = imgid;

}

public String getCourse_name() {

return course_name;

}

public void setCourse_name(String course_name) {

this .course_name = course_name;

}

public int getImgid() {

return imgid;

}

public void setImgid( int imgid) {

this .imgid = imgid;

}

Step 6: Create an Adapter Class

Adapter Class adds the data from Modal Class in each item of GridView which is to be displayed on the screen. For Creating Adapter Class.

Now click on app > java > apps package name > Right-Click on it.
Then Click on New > Java Class.
Name your Java Class file as CourseGVAdapter . Below is the code for the CourseGVAdapter .java file.

Java

import android.content.Context;

import android.view.LayoutInflater;

import android.view.View;

import android.view.ViewGroup;

import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;

import android.widget.ImageView;

import android.widget.TextView;

import androidx.annotation.NonNull;

import androidx.annotation.Nullable;

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class CourseGVAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<CourseModel> {

public CourseGVAdapter( @NonNull Context context, ArrayList<CourseModel> courseModelArrayList) {

super (context, 0 , courseModelArrayList);

}

@NonNull

@Override

public View getView( int position, @Nullable View convertView, @NonNull ViewGroup parent) {

View listitemView = convertView;

if (listitemView == null ) {

listitemView = LayoutInflater.from(getContext()).inflate(R.layout.card_item, parent, false );

}

CourseModel courseModel = getItem(position);

TextView courseTV = listitemView.findViewById(R.id.idTVCourse);

ImageView courseIV = listitemView.findViewById(R.id.idIVcourse);

courseTV.setText(courseModel.getCourse_name());

courseIV.setImageResource(courseModel.getImgid());

return listitemView;

}

Step 7: Modify the MainActivity.java file

Now in this file, we will perform all backend operations that will be adding data to GridView. Below is the code for theMainActivity.java file.

Java

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.widget.GridView;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

GridView coursesGV;

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super .onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

coursesGV = findViewById(R.id.idGVcourses);

ArrayList<CourseModel> courseModelArrayList = new ArrayList<CourseModel>();

courseModelArrayList.add( new CourseModel( "DSA" , R.drawable.ic_gfglogo));

courseModelArrayList.add( new CourseModel( "JAVA" , R.drawable.ic_gfglogo));

courseModelArrayList.add( new CourseModel( "C++" , R.drawable.ic_gfglogo));

courseModelArrayList.add( new CourseModel( "Python" , R.drawable.ic_gfglogo));

courseModelArrayList.add( new CourseModel( "Javascript" , R.drawable.ic_gfglogo));

courseModelArrayList.add( new CourseModel( "DSA" , R.drawable.ic_gfglogo));

CourseGVAdapter adapter = new CourseGVAdapter( this , courseModelArrayList);

coursesGV.setAdapter(adapter);

}

Output: