Question

Here is my custom CursorAdapter:

public class TasksAdapter extends CursorAdapter implements Filterable {

    private final Context context;

    public TasksAdapter(Context context, Cursor c) {
        super(context, c);
        this.context = context;
    }

    /**
     * @see android.widget.CursorAdapter#newView(android.content.Context, android.database.Cursor, android.view.ViewGroup)
     */
    @Override
    public View newView(Context context, Cursor cursor, ViewGroup parent) {
        LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
        View v = inflater.inflate(android.R.layout.simple_list_item_checked, parent, false);        

        ViewHolder holder = new ViewHolder();
        holder.textview = (CheckedTextView)v.findViewById(android.R.id.text1);
        v.setTag(holder);

        return v;
    }

    /**  
     * @see android.widget.CursorAdapter#bindView(android.view.View, android.content.Context, android.database.Cursor)
     */
    @Override
    public void bindView(View view, Context context, Cursor cursor) {

        ViewHolder holder = (ViewHolder)view.getTag();
        int titleCol = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(Tasks.TITLE);
        int completedCol = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(Tasks.COMPLETED);

        String title = cursor.getString(titleCol);
        boolean completed = Util.intToBool(cursor.getInt(completedCol));

        holder.textview.setText(title);
        holder.textview.setChecked(completed);
    }

    /**
     * @see android.widget.CursorAdapter#runQueryOnBackgroundThread(java.lang.CharSequence)
     */
    @Override
    public Cursor runQueryOnBackgroundThread(CharSequence constraint) {

        StringBuffer buffer = null;
        String[] args = null;

        if (constraint != null) {
            buffer = new StringBuffer();
            buffer.append("UPPER (");
            buffer.append(Tasks.TITLE);
            buffer.append(") GLOB ?");
            args = new String[] { "*" + constraint.toString().toUpperCase() + "*" };
        }

        Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(Tasks.CONTENT_URI,
            null, (buffer == null ? null : buffer.toString()), args,
            Tasks.DEFAULT_SORT_ORDER);

        c.moveToFirst();
        return c;
    }

    /**
     * @see android.widget.CursorAdapter#convertToString(android.database.Cursor)
     */
    @Override
    public CharSequence convertToString(Cursor cursor) {
        final int titleCol = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(Tasks.TITLE);
        String title = cursor.getString(titleCol);
        return title;
    }

    static class ViewHolder {
        CheckedTextView textview;
    }

}

Does this fall into the constraints of the ViewHolder pattern? I wasn’t sure because this was a CursorAdapter, where there was no getView. If there are any problems or suggestions, could you please point them out.

Answer 1

CursorAdapter won’t call the newView each time it needs a new row; if it already has a View, it will call the bindView, so the created view is actually reused.

That said, as pointed out by Joseph in the comments, you can still use ViewHolder in order to avoid calling findViewById repeatedly.

If you are still concerned about efficiency then take a look at the SimpleCursorAdapter implementation, which uses a WeakHashMap (a map of WeakReferences):

WeakHashMap<View, View[]> mHolders = new WeakHashMap<View, View[]>();