# SimpleAdapter.ViewBinder

Added in[API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels)

# ViewBinder

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Kotlin\|[Java](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/SimpleAdapter.ViewBinder "View this page in Java")  

```
interface ViewBinder
```

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [android.widget.SimpleAdapter.ViewBinder](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/widget/SimpleAdapter.ViewBinder#) |

This class can be used by external clients of SimpleAdapter to bind values to views. You should use this class to bind values to views that are not directly supported by SimpleAdapter or to change the way binding occurs for views supported by SimpleAdapter.

## Summary

|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Public methods                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ||
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| abstract[Boolean](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-boolean/index.html) | [setViewValue](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/widget/SimpleAdapter.ViewBinder#setViewValue(android.view.View,%20kotlin.Any,%20kotlin.String))`(`view:` `[View](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/view/View.html#)!`, `data:` `[Any](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-any/index.html)!`, `textRepresentation:` `[String](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)!`)` Binds the specified data to the specified view. |

## Public methods

### setViewValue

Added in[API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels)  

```
abstract fun setViewValue(
    view: View!, 
    data: Any!, 
    textRepresentation: String!
): Boolean
```

Binds the specified data to the specified view. When binding is handled by this ViewBinder, this method must return true. If this method returns false, SimpleAdapter will attempts to handle the binding on its own.

|                                                                                                                  Parameters                                                                                                                   ||
|----------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `view`               | [View](https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/android/view/View.html#)!:the view to bind the data to                                                                                                            |
| `data`               | [Any](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-any/index.html)!:the data to bind to the view                                                                                                                |
| `textRepresentation` | [String](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-string/index.html)!:a safe String representation of the supplied data: it is either the result of data.toString() or an empty String but it is never null |

|                                                                   Return                                                                    ||
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
| [Boolean](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-boolean/index.html) | true if the data was bound to the view, false otherwise |