androidx.cursoradapter:cursoradapter
Official Description: The Support Library is a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs. Compatible on devices running API 14 or later.
CommonsWare’s Notes
This library contains an “unbundled” copy of the CursorAdapter
abstract class
and key subclasses, such as SimpleCursorAdapter
. Here, “unbundled” means
that these originated as framework classes, but this library contains its own
independent copy of them, in a new Java package. This way, the classes can
be updated more frequently than Android devices get updated.
CursorAdapter
is a bit of legacy code for working with the old Adapter
family of views — ListView
, GridView
, etc. CursorAdapter
is an
Adapter
that adapts Cursor
objects, such as you might obtain from a
SQLiteDatabase
or a ContentProvider
query.
In modern Android app development, CursorAdapter
is not used much. Mostly,
that is because the Adapter
classes are not used much, as many of them
have been supplanted by RecyclerView
. Also, we are often using other data
storage APIs, such as Room, where we do not have Cursor
objects to use.
Documentation
Versions
- Latest Stable: 1.0.0
- Latest Release Candidate: 1.0.0-rc02
- Latest Beta: 1.0.0-beta01
- Latest Alpha: 1.0.0-alpha3