title: Programmatically Expand/Collapse Group
body: <p>I want to display to the user a list of all the units and all their sub-units to select from in an ExpandableListView where they can check off which ones they want to move.  Since it would seem having clickable Views inside of the ListView prevents it from expanding and collapsing as it naturally would, I was going to simply allow the CheckedChange event to expand/collapse based on the groupPosition.  But when I change the check on one CheckBox, several or all groups responds instead of just the group that I'm clicking in.  </p>
  
  <p>equiplistparent.axml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:orientation="horizontal"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="35dp"
  android:gravity="center_vertical"&gt;
  &lt;CheckBox
      android:id="@+id/check"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_marginLeft="45dp" /&gt;
  &lt;TextView
      android:id="@+id/info"
      android:layout_width="300dp"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_margin="5dp"
      android:textSize="20dp"
      android:gravity="left" /&gt;
  &lt;AutoCompleteTextView
      android:id="@+id/sites"
      android:layout_width="100dp"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:textSize="20dp"
      android:textColor="@android:color/black"
      android:background="@android:color/white"
      android:layout_margin="5dp"
      android:textCursorDrawable="@null"
      android:gravity="center_horizontal"
      android:hint="To Store" /&gt;
  &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Custom Adapter</p>
  
  <pre><code>class EquipAdapter : BaseExpandableListAdapter
  {
      private string[] Parent { get; set; }
      private List&lt;List&lt;CPEquipment&gt;&gt; Child { get; set; }
      private Context _context { get; set; }
      private IListAdapter _adapter { get; set; }
      private ExpandableListView _list { get; set; }
  
      public EquipAdapter(Context context, List&lt;string&gt; parent, List&lt;List&lt;CPEquipment&gt;&gt; child, IListAdapter adapter, ExpandableListView list)
      {
          _context = context;
          Parent = parent.ToArray();
          Child = child;
          _adapter = adapter;
          _list = list;
      }
  
      public override Object GetChild(int groupPosition, int childPosition)
      {
          List&lt;CPEquipment&gt; level1 = Child.ElementAt(groupPosition);
          CPEquipment level2 = level1.ElementAt(childPosition);
  
          return level2.Serial + " " + level2.Model;
      }
  
      public override long GetChildId(int groupPosition, int childPosition)
      {
          return Convert.ToInt32(groupPosition.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) + childPosition.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
      }
  
      public override int GetChildrenCount(int groupPosition)
      {
          return Child.ElementAt(groupPosition).Count;
      }
  
      public override View GetChildView(int groupPosition, int childPosition, bool isLastChild, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
      {
          if (convertView == null)
          {
              LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) _context.GetSystemService(Context.LayoutInflaterService);
              convertView = inflater.Inflate(Android.Resource.Layout.SimpleExpandableListItem2, null);
          }
  
          TextView text = (TextView) convertView.FindViewById(Android.Resource.Id.Text2);
          text.Text = GetChild(groupPosition, childPosition).ToString();
  
          return convertView;
      }
  
      public override Object GetGroup(int groupPosition)
      {
          return Parent[groupPosition];
      }
  
      public override long GetGroupId(int groupPosition)
      {
          return groupPosition;
      }
  
      public override View GetGroupView(int groupPosition, bool isExpanded, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
      {
          if (convertView == null)
          {
              LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) _context.GetSystemService(Context.LayoutInflaterService);
              convertView = inflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.equiplistparent, null);
          }
  
          TextView info = (TextView) convertView.FindViewById(Resource.Id.info);
          info.Text = GetGroup(groupPosition).ToString();
          AutoCompleteTextView acText = (AutoCompleteTextView) convertView.FindViewById(Resource.Id.sites);
          acText.Adapter = _adapter;
  
          CheckBox check = (CheckBox) convertView.FindViewById(Resource.Id.check);
          check.CheckedChange += (o, args) =&gt;
                                     {
                                         int currGroup = groupPosition;
                                         if (args.IsChecked)
                                             _list.ExpandGroup(currGroup);
                                         else
                                         {
                                             _list.CollapseGroup(currGroup);
                                         }
                                     };
          return convertView;
      }
  
      public override bool IsChildSelectable(int groupPosition, int childPosition)
      {
          return true;
      }
  
      public override int GroupCount
      {
          get { return Parent.Length; }
      }
  
      public override bool HasStableIds
      {
          get { return true; }
      }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I attempted working around this issue using <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2322390/android-row-becomes-unclickable-with-button/2323085#2323085">this suggestion</a>, but it made no difference in the ListViews ability to naturally expand or collapse.</p>
  
  <p>I tried putting the checkboxes in the children instead of parent and just forcing all groups to be open.  But now if I check 3 of the boxes, 3 more boxes will just check themselves at random.  I know there is a way to use checkboxes in ListViews, but they are not behaving as expected in mine.  Is it an issue with MonoDroid?</p>