I wish to manipulate background colors of selected row in my ListView which from reading I need to extend with a CustomAdapter. My main adapter is of the type SimpleCursorAdapter so I have modified a CustomAdapter that extended ArrayAdapter to SimpleCursorAdapter.

My problem is that the listview is blank when using the CustomAdapter but if do not extend and use the SimpleCursorAdapter the listview has rows / items.
Logcat shows a problem in my CustomAdapter see below.

This is my main activity code:

```
phrasesdb helper = new phrasesdb(this);
database = helper.getWritableDatabase();
data = database.query("phrases", fields, null, null, null, null, fields[0] + " COLLATE NOCASE ASC");
//WORKING SimpleCursorAdapter
//dataSource = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, R.layout.phrases, data, fields, new int[] { R.id.phrase });

//NOT WORKING
dataSource = new CustomAdapter(this, R.layout.phrases, data, fields, new int[] { R.id.phrase });

view = getListView();
setListAdapter(dataSource);

```

This is the Custom Adapter class and I have marked the position where logcat errors:

```
import android.content.Context;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.SimpleCursorAdapter;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class CustomAdapter extends SimpleCursorAdapter {

protected static final int NO_SELECTED_COLOR = 0xFF191919;
protected static final int SELECTED_COLOR = 0xFF3366CC;

Cursor items;
private LayoutInflater mInflater;
private int viewResourceId;
private int selectedPosition;

public CustomAdapter(Context context, int resourceId, Cursor data, String[] fields, int[] is) {
    super(context, resourceId, data, fields, is);
    mInflater = (LayoutInflater)context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
    viewResourceId = resourceId;
    items = data;
}

@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    TextView tv = (TextView)convertView;
    if (tv == null) {
  //WHEN DEBUGGING THIS IS WHERE LOGCAT ERROR MESSAGES STARTS
        tv = (TextView)mInflater.inflate(viewResourceId, null);
    }
    tv.setText(items.getString(position));

    // Change the background color
    if (position==selectedPosition) tv.setBackgroundColor(SELECTED_COLOR);
    else tv.setBackgroundColor(NO_SELECTED_COLOR);

    return tv;
}

public void setSelected(int position) {
    selectedPosition = position;
}
}

```

And this is LogCat:

> 
> 10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): android.widget.LinearLayout
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): java.lang.ClassCastException: android.widget.LinearLayout
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at com.xxx.xxx.CustomAdapter.getView(CustomAdapter.java:49)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.widget.AbsListView.obtainView(AbsListView.java:1449)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.widget.ListView.makeAndAddView(ListView.java:1801)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.widget.ListView.fillSpecific(ListView.java:1339)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.widget.ListView.layoutChildren(ListView.java:1637)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.widget.AbsListView.onLayout(AbsListView.java:1279)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.view.View.layout(View.java:7321)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:338)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.view.View.layout(View.java:7321)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:338)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.view.View.layout(View.java:7321)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:1217)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1991)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:150)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4385)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:849)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:607)
>  10-18 13:33:17.869: E/ListView(28378): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
> 
> 
> 

This is the layout

```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout android:id="@+id/rowLayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="horizontal">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/phrase" 
android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
android:layout_marginLeft="2dp" 
android:layout_marginRight="2dp" 
android:focusable="false" 
android:focusableInTouchMode="false" 
android:text="@string/wordforphrases"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:visibility="visible"/>

</LinearLayout>

```

Logcat is indicating something to do with LinearLayout but I cannot figure out where I have gone wrong.

Please would anyone be able to piont me in the right direction?

thanks
Mark

Update: After changing to match inflate as per Sardor's idea (thankyou):

```
tv = (TextView)mInflater.inflate(viewResourceId, parent);

```

I now get this error

```
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931): addView(View, LayoutParams) is not supported in AdapterView
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931): java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: addView(View, LayoutParams) is not supported in AdapterView
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.widget.AdapterView.addView(AdapterView.java:461)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:416)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:320)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:276)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at com.xxx.xxx.CustomAdapter.getView(CustomAdapter.java:36)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.widget.AbsListView.obtainView(AbsListView.java:1449)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.widget.ListView.makeAndAddView(ListView.java:1801)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.widget.ListView.fillSpecific(ListView.java:1339)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.widget.ListView.layoutChildren(ListView.java:1637)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.widget.AbsListView.onLayout(AbsListView.java:1279)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.view.View.layout(View.java:7321)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:338)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.view.View.layout(View.java:7321)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:338)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.view.View.layout(View.java:7321)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:1217)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1991)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:150)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4385)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:849)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:607)
10-18 15:23:22.083: E/ListView(28931):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
10-18 15:23:22.093: D/View(28931): onTouchEvent: viewFlags: 0x18244001

```

When checking parent it is seeing the TextView.

Any other thoughts please?