public class testListView extends ListActivity {
  ...
  private DecimalFormat myCustDecFormatter = new DecimalFormat("########.00");
  ...
  ...
  /** Called when the activity is first created. */
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)  {
    ...
    ...
    ...
  }

private void fillData() {
    /* Get all of the rows from the database and create the item list */
    /* for mult accts, pass in acct name? */
    mEntryCursor = mDbHelper.fetchAllEntries();
    startManagingCursor(mEntryCursor);
    
    // Create an array to specify the fields we want to display in the list (only TITLE)
    String[] from = new String[]{myDbAdapter.KEY_NMBR,myDbAdapter.KEY_DATE,myDbAdapter.KEY_DESCR,myDbAdapter.KEY_AMT};
    
    // and an array of the fields we want to bind those fields to (in this case just text1)
    int[] to = new int[]{R.id.txtnmbr, R.id.txtdate, R.id.txtdescr, R.id.txtamt};
    
    // Now create a simple cursor adapter and set it to display
    setListAdapter(new SimpleCursorAdapter(this, R.layout.entryrow, mEntryCursor, from, to) {
        @Override
        public void setViewText(TextView v, String text) {
          super.setViewText(v, convText(v, text));
        }
        
    });
     
  }
  
  private String convText(TextView v, String text) {
    switch (v.getId()) {
      case R.id.txtamt:
        double dblAmt;
        //dblAmt = Double.valueOf(text);
        dblAmt = mEntryCursor.getDouble(AMT_COLUMN);
        return myCustDecFormatter.format(dblAmt);
    }
      return text;
    } 
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...
}//end testListView