It will accepts a static data defined in the resources. It will accepts an instance of cursor as an input. It will expects an Array or List as input. Generally, in android we have a different types of adapters available to fetch the data from different data sources to fill the data into adapter views, those are

The adapter will hold the data and iterates through an items in data set and generate the views for each item in the list. In android, Adapter will act as an intermediate between the data sources and adapter views such as ListView, Gridview to fill the data into adapter views. Generally, the adapter pulls data from sources such as an array or database and converts each item into a result view and that’s placed into the list.įollowing is the pictorial representation of listview in android applications.

In android, ListView is a ViewGroup that is used to display the list of scrollable of items in multiple rows and the list items are automatically inserted to the list using an adapter.

Android studio listview attributes