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ListView inside ListView item

I want to ask one question, should I use ListView inside ListView item? Or I should redesign and remake my idea?
Example of ListView, but should be with couple sub items:

A ListView inside a ListView item is never a good idea. If you want sublists inside your list you can, for example, use a ExpandableListView. However, with the migration from ListViews to RecyclerViews I would recommend you go and implement this instead.

A ListView will never work correctly embedded as an item in another ListView. In fact, scrolling things inside other scrolling things is almost never what you really want to do, as it would be confusing to the user how to actually navigate your screen.

Listview filter through same names Android

So I have a custom spinner header, where the user can change the title of names based on selection. What I want to do is if they click on the spinner and change the default, then it only shows the names in the listview from the title of names. Currently I have tried this by reinstantiating my fragment from my tabhost, and if conditions are met it would just remove from list everything that doesnt have what user selected. But this is inefficient and it didn't work as the listview wasn't updated and the condition wasn't even getting called on the new instantiation... Is there any filter way I can do for this? Any ideas or help would be great!

You only need to refresh the ListView not the entire fragment. There are several ways to do this, including providing a different data source to the ListView's adapter. The exact details for how to do this depend on whether you are using an ArrayAdapter or a CursorAdapter.

Markable ListView with changing Actionbar Actions

Im trying to find out how I can mark things in ListViews with a longClick. After I selected one item ,the Actionbar should change with diffrent options (buttons like delete, add , copy etc) which Im able to execute.I really didnt know how I can find these examples because Its a kind unique I guess. I founded threads where I can Mark an Item which gets a diffrent color and nothing else. How can I achieve this ?
Before selecting :
After long click :

Well you can add an onLongClickListener in your ListView or RecyclerView but for each list_item you will have to specify a checkbox that will become visible only when you longClick the ListView.
Then if you do not want to mess up the actionBar with new menu items you can create a context menu that will do your job.
You can use a ListPopupWindow or you can also use a CardView with a contexual menu as shown in the picture here.

Highlight and disable Listview items

I have a little Problem with my ListView.
I fill my ListView with an ArrayList<String> per ArrayAdapter<String> with more than 100 items.
Before my dialog will be show i want to highlight and disable some items. I have found the solution with ListView.post(new Runnable() {...});
I highlight my items with lv.getChildAt(2).setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);
and disbable an item with lv.getChildAt(3).setEnabled(false);
I do both also in an OnItemClickListener().
Now my problem:
if in the ListView are 11 items visible at runtime, the the highligt- and disable-pattern will repeat every 11 items.
i.e. if i highlight just the 3. item also the 14., 25. ... item will get a blue background.
And if i disable the 4. item also the 15. and 26. and so on is disabled.
If i scroll fast to buttom and back to top other items are highlighted and disabled.
Another problem is, that i can only access the first (11) visible items in the post-runnable. If i try to highlight the 20. item the app will crash with a NullPointerException.
What can i do to prevent the "item-recycling" and to get full access to all items before the Dialog is shown?

I'm not sure i understand what you want to achieve but here are some suggestions for you.
1) Always Recycle, you should never avoid recicling since you maybe run into another problem, you will run out of memory.
2) In your model implement the checkeable interface, so the model should know if an item is selected or not, Not the view only
3) When iterating each element make use of a ViewHolder and then check the model to see if the elment being inflaed it selected or not and use the desired color
Please have a look at this example link, it describes the use of CAB (Contextual Action Bar) but it uses the things i'm mentioning.
I hope it helps you.

Checkbox in ListView with odd checking behaviour

I am new to Java and Andriod development.
I have a view within my app which contains a ListView
I then have a custom Adapter which inherits from an ArrayAdapter
within the view in the getView method I return a row which contains some text and a checkbox
now so far this all works great my list is populated and I can check my items, and all the events seem to fire as expected.
My problem that I am having is that I check the first 3 items and then I notice that the 11th, 12th and 13th items are checked and as I scroll I see that at regular intervals other checkboxes also seem to be checked in the same pattern.
If I check about 10 checkboxes then it will end up checking all the items in the list of about 80...
can anyone explain what I have done wrong?
I dont think any code will help explain this as I do not set the checkstate of the checkbox anywhere, this is all handled itself, so the fact items are being checked is puzzling me.
Thanks in advance

This is happening because Android recycles list items for performance purposes, here you have the solution of this problem:
ListView reusing views when ... I don't want it to
Hope to help :)

This is expected behavior. ListView reuses views in the adapter.
So what you want is to keep a Set of "selected items" and add an item or remove it when the CheckBox is clicked and then in your getView add the following code:
if(mSelected.contains(getItem(position)) {
checkBox.setChecked(true);
} else {
checkBox.setChecked(false);
}
This way when the row is reused the CheckBox will be the proper status.