I have OrmLite running in my app with database helpers and so forth. I have looked in the OrmLite's examples and some tutorials. This is my code for using listViews:
Database manager:
public List<Artist> getAllArtists() {
List<Artist> artists = null;
try {
artists = getHelper().getArtistDao().queryForAll();
} catch (SQLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return artists;
}
Activity:
List<Artist> artists = dataBase.getAllArtists();
for (Artist artist : artists) {
items.add(artist);
}
mAdapter = new ArtistsListCustomAdapter(getActivity(), items);
listView.setAdapter(mAdapter);
Is this an ok way or will there be trouble down the road using my method?
From other sources I have read that should use CursorAdapter for listViews and not the BaseAdapter (which I am now extending in ArtistsListCustomAdapter()). To me it seems awkward to iterate over the result a second time to create the array.
I have found some clues regarding using adapters this but since I am rather new to Android in general, I would really appreciate more clues to "connect the dots". In my case, should getAllArtists() return a Cursor? It seems complicated for such an easy task: