Drag and Drop in a `ListView`

I have the same problem. I did not solved this recycling problem, but I found a possible workaround still using the Drag & Drop framework. The idea is to change of perspective: instead of using a OnDragListener on each View in the list, it can be used on the ListView directly.

Then the idea is to find on top of which item the finger is while doing the Drag & Drop, and to write the related display code in the ListAdapter of the ListView. The trick is then to find on top of which item view we are, and where the drop is done.

In order to do that, I set as an id to each view created by the adapter its ListView position - with View.setId(), so I can find it later using a combination of ListView.pointToPosition() and ListView.findViewById().

As a drag listener example (which is, I remind you, applied on the ListView), it can be something like that:

// Initalize your ListView
private ListView _myListView = new ListView(getContext());

// Start drag when long click on a ListView item
_myListView.setOnItemLongClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemLongClickListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onItemLongClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
        DragShadowBuilder shadowBuilder = new View.DragShadowBuilder(view);
        view.startDrag(null, shadowBuilder, _myListView.getItemAtPosition(position), 0);
        return true;
    }
});

// Set the adapter and drag listener
_myListView.setOnDragListener(new MyListViewDragListener());
_myListView.setAdapter(new MyViewAdapter(getActivity()));

// Classes used above

private class MyViewAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Object> {
    public MyViewAdapter (Context conte