Android alphabets section Listview like contacts app listview
<p>now can any one help me how to look my view something like this. please help me i am too confusing.</p>

<p><img src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/HyHVM.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>

<p>here my code:-------</p>

<p>phonebooklistview.xml</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
&lt;RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" &gt;

    &lt;EditText
        android:id="@+id/searchTxtBox"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="40dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="65dp"
        android:hint="@string/searchHintTxt"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:drawableLeft="@android:drawable/ic_search_category_default"
        android:drawablePadding="0dp"
        android:text="" /&gt;

    &lt;ListView
        android:id="@android:id/list"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:fadingEdge="vertical"
        android:fastScrollEnabled="true"
        android:padding="2dp"
        android:layout_below="@+id/searchTxtBox" &gt;
    &lt;/ListView&gt;

    &lt;TextView
        android:id="@+id/phoneBookEmptyView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:text="@string/phoneBookEmptyMsg"
        android:textColor="@color/white"
        android:layout_below="@+id/searchTxtBox"
        android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" /&gt;

&lt;/RelativeLayout&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>and in PhoneBookList.java file </p>

<pre><code>protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.phonebooklistview);

    listView = getListView();
    adapter = new ItemsAdapter(this);
    adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
    listView.setAdapter(adapter);
    listView.setTextFilterEnabled(true);
    //listView.setFastScrollEnabled(true);
    listView.setOnItemLongClickListener(this);
    listView.setItemsCanFocus(false);
    listView.setEmptyView(findViewById(R.id.phoneBookEmptyView));
    registerForContextMenu(listView);

}



private class ItemsAdapter extends BaseAdapter implements SectionIndexer
{
    HashMap&lt;String, Integer&gt; alphaIndexer;
    String[] sections;
      private LayoutInflater inflater;
      String[][] items;

      public ItemsAdapter(Context context)
      {
          inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
          this.items = phoneBookDataArr;

            alphaIndexer = new HashMap&lt;String, Integer&gt;();
            int size = items.length;

            for (int x = 0; x &lt; size; x++)
            {
                String name=items[x][2];
                String ch =  name.substring(0, 1);
                ch = ch.toUpperCase();
                alphaIndexer.put(ch, x);

                Log.e(TAG,"alphaIndexer="+ch);
            }

            Set&lt;String&gt; sectionLetters = alphaIndexer.keySet();
            ArrayList&lt;String&gt; sectionList = new ArrayList&lt;String&gt;(sectionLetters); 
            Collections.sort(sectionList);
            sections = new String[sectionList.size()];
            sectionList.toArray(sections);
      }

      //@Override
      public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
      {
    // here my custom listviewcontentview goes.
      }

      public int getCount()
      {
          return items.length;
      }

      public Object getItem(int position)
      {
          return position;
      }

      public long getItemId(int position)
      {
          return 0;
      }

      public int getPositionForSection(int section)
      {
          Log.e(TAG,"getPositionForSection="+section);
          return alphaIndexer.get(sections[section]);
      }

      public int getSectionForPosition(int position)
      {
          Log.e(TAG,"getSectionForPosition="+position);
          return 1;
      }

      public Object[] getSections()
      {
          Log.e(TAG,"getSections="+sections.length);
          for (String str : sections)
          {
            Log.e(TAG,str);
          }
          return sections;
      }
}
</code></pre>
