What's the role of adapters in Android?

Question

I want to know when, where and how adapters are used in the context of Android.

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Answer 1

Adapters in Android are a bridge between the adapter view (e.g. ListView) and the underlying data for that view. Imagine what the world would have been without adapters!

Examples

• A view that shows items in a vertically scrolling list. The items come from the ListAdapter associated with this view.

• The ListAdapter defines the layout for individual rows of the list and provides data to the ListView via the setAdapter() method of ListView.

• Android provides several standard adapters; the most important are ArrayAdapter and CursorAdapter.

• ArrayAdapter can handle data based on arrays or lists.

• SimpleCursorAdapter can handle database related data.