What's the role of adapters in Android?

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Robin picture Robin · Sep 9, 2010 · Viewed 97k times · Source

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

The information from Android's developer documentation was insufficient for me and I'd like to get a more detailed analysis.

Answer

success_anil picture success_anil · Sep 9, 2010

Well adapters in Android are basically a bridge between the UI components and the data source that fill data into the UI Component

For example, Lists (UI Component) get populated by using a list adapter, from a data source array.

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