Android: ListView, RecyclerView, Adapters

Tue, 27 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I recently started working on part three of my Zero-To-Hero series, which gives us a chance to leverage a RecyclerView and List Adapter for our Todo/Habit application. Though I cover them in that tutorial as well, I feel like they deserve a post to themselves to go a bit more in depth. Code examples are taken from the Turnip app that we build in the Zero-To-Hero series.

ListViews

So what is a ListView? It’s a very commonly used view group in the Android ecosystem and is used to display a list of scrollable items. It’s important to note that the content is automatically inserted into the ListView from an adapter, and we’ll talk about those in a second. A few examples of list views include the settings app on your phone or the songs in Spotify’s playlist view. With a list view, you define a view holder template which acts as the view that is used for each list item. This view holder is written just like any other template – standard XML with a container element.

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Android: ListView, RecyclerView, Adapters

ListViews