Android :: Use An ArrayAdapter (no Subclassing) With A Custom View To Display Data?

Often, a simple of ArrayAdapter does what I want and during early development I will provide the android.R.simple_list_item_1 for the view id required by the ArrayAdapter constructor. Is it possible to provide a customized view which is based on the android.R.simple_list_item_1 to the ArrayAdapter constructor?

I do not fully understand Android's 'include' functionality, but what I would like to do is something like:

Define a new TextView based on customizing the android.R.simple_list_item_1.
(I have no idea what the valid syntax would be)

code...

Reference my customized TextView. I assume that something like this would go into my layout directory. Then in my code I would do something like:

LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View view = inflater.inflate(R.id.MyTextView, null);
ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, view.getId(), myArrayOfData);

Is this possible and if it is, what is the appropriate syntax to accomplish what I want?