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

An adapter acts as a bridge between an AdapterView and the underlying data for that view. The adapter provides access to the data items and is responsible for creating a view for each item in the data set.

Adapters are a smart way to connect a View with some kind of data source. Typically, your view would be a ListView and the data would come in form of a Cursor or Array. So adapters come as subclasses of CursorAdapter or ArrayAdapter.