How to associate each item in ListView with id from database

I have a ListView object with Adapter extended from CursorAdapter. There are only (ListView l, View v, int position, long id) parameters in onListItemClick() method. I need to query my database with _id f开发者_开发问答or currently chosen list's item. But I don't want the _id of the row from database to be shown in the list's row. So I created additional TextView in list_item.xml and made it invisible by setting its width and height to 0px. So on newView() I can associate the list's item with it's _id in database.

I find this approach to be ugly a bit. Might be there are any other more neat solution?

You can use this ViewHolder pattern which will let you set a custom object in the tag of the row. You can add the extra properties to the ViewHolder class (like _id) and set them when creating your ViewHolder objects. It will also help with performance of inflating and reusing views.

You can use View.setTag() to set associate custom object with any view you return from your custom CursorAdapter. And then access this tag from your onListItemClick().