title: show tweets in a listview in twitter4j
body: <p>I have been playing around with twitter4j and Android and so far so good. However I am having problems figuring out how to display the tweets properly on a list View. Here is my code so far, based on the <a href="https://github.com/yusuke/twitter4j/blob/master/twitter4j-examples/src/main/java/twitter4j/examples/timeline/GetHomeTimeline.java" rel="nofollow noreferrer">code example given on the Twitter4j website</a>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public class MainActivity extends Activity {
  //ListView with the tweets
  private ListView timelineListView; 
  
  // Alert Dialog Manager
  AlertDialogManager alert = new AlertDialogManager();
  
  //Adapter
  ArrayAdapter&lt;twitter4j.Status&gt; tweetAdapter ;  
  
  //List
  List&lt;Status&gt; rawStatuses;
  
  //Other stuff
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.list_main);
  //Login methods, checking that there is an Internet connection, etc... When a button is
  //pressed, an Asynctask is called and it retrieves the tweets:
  
  
  class updateTimeline extends AsyncTask &lt;Void, Void, Void&gt;{
  
      protected void onPreExecute(Void thing){
  
      }
  
      protected Void doInBackground(Void... arg0) {           
          try {
              ConfigurationBuilder builder = new ConfigurationBuilder();
              builder.setOAuthConsumerKey(TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY);
              builder.setOAuthConsumerSecret(TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET);
  
              // Access Token
              String access_token = mSharedPreferences.getString(PREF_KEY_OAUTH_TOKEN, "");
              // Access Token Secret
              String access_token_secret = mSharedPreferences.getString(PREF_KEY_OAUTH_SECRET, "");
  
              AccessToken accessToken = new AccessToken(access_token, access_token_secret);
              Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory(builder.build()).getInstance(accessToken);
              User user = twitter.verifyCredentials();
  
              rawStatuses = twitter.getHomeTimeline();
  
  
              System.out.println("Showing @" + user.getScreenName() + "'s home timeline.");
              for (twitter4j.Status status : rawStatuses) {
                  System.out.println("@" + status.getUser().getScreenName() + " - " + status.getText()); 
                  }
  
          } catch (TwitterException te) {
              te.printStackTrace();
              System.out.println("Failed to get timeline: " + te.getMessage());
              //System.exit(-1);
          }
          return null;
      }
  
  
  
  
      protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
          // dismiss the dialog after getting all products
          //pDialog.dismiss();
  
          // updating UI from Background Thread
          runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
              @Override
              public void run() {
              Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                          "Timeline updated", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                          .show();    
              tweetAdapter = new ArrayAdapter&lt;twitter4j.Status&gt;(MainActivity.this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, rawStatuses);
              timelineListView.setAdapter(tweetAdapter);
              }
  
          });
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It retrieves the last 20 tweets or so just fine. But my problems comes fromt he final part, where I bind the list rawStatuses to the adapter and the listView, because it basically prints ALL the information on screen:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SfLDa.jpg" alt="tweets"></p>
  
  <p>Ok, not all that information is useful or ever needed, but it is there. And I don't know how to display in the listView only the Twitter handle and the tweet, for example (i.e. extract that information from the list rawStatuses properly). I thought about having a List with the most useful information (something like:
  <code>List &lt;User, Tweet, ID, Time&gt;</code> ), but it seems to me cumbersome and a very poor solution.</p>
  
  <p>My question is: How can or should manage all that information that a tweet contains (an many tweets) so I can display what I want and still have the rest? The closest answer I have found is <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/8883871/833937">this answer</a>, but the link given doesn't work anymore.</p>
  
  <p>I hope I have explained myself. Thanks in advance.</p>