Mark's coding playground...

Java class:  public class MainActivity extends ListActivity { static final String[] items = new String[] { "Babbage","Boole", "Berners-Lee", "Atanasoff", "Allen","Cormack", "Cray","Dijkstra","Dix","Dewey", "Erdos","Zebra" }; ArrayAdapter<string> arrayadapter; ListView listview; ArrayList<string> arraylist; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); arraylist= new ArrayList<String>(); for(int i=0;i<items.length;i++) { arraylist.add(FRUITS[i]); } Collections.sort(arraylist );//for sorting arraylist arrayadapter=new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,arraylist); listv...

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