HorizontalListView In Android? No. Use A HorizontalScrollView

There is no HorizontalListView in Android but I have seen someone made a class for that. Problem is, you cannot add any other View in the XML. It simply will not appear, only the HorizontalListView will be there.

The Android API does have a HorizontalScrollView class and I recommend you use this instead since you can place other widgets in the XML file. This sample shows a number of Button objects inside the scroll view class and I added them programmatically since the code I was working on depended on dynamic data.

You can simply place these same Buttons inside the XML.

<HorizontalScrollView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/horizontal"  android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    />
</HorizontalScrollView>

The MyActivity class is my class that inherits from Activity and is the parameter that is needed by all views since it requires a Context class. This code adds 10 buttons to the HorizontalScrollView class and sets an OnClickListener to activate any code when you click on any of the buttons.

LinearLayout ll = (LinearLayout) a.findViewById(R.id.horizontal);
int how_many_buttons = 10;
for (int i=0; i<how_many_buttons; i++) {     
    Button btn = new Button(MyActivity.this);   
    btn.setHeight(20);     
    btn.setText(String.valueOf(i));    
    btn.setOnClickListener(MyActivity.this);     
    ll.addView(btn); 
} 
 
public void onClick(View v) {     
    if (v instanceof Button)         
        System.out.println("bt>" + ((Button) v).getText());
    }
}