I am using a class which extends Activity to obtain a list from an API…
In some apps which do basically the same, the devs extended ListActivity…
Which are the differences?
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I am using a class which extends Activity to obtain a list from an API…
In some apps which do basically the same, the devs extended ListActivity…
Which are the differences?
ListActivityextends the functionality of the commonandroid.app.Activityby providing a number of list centric features ‘for-free’ if you like. For example, the handling of a list entry click is neatly contained within ListActivity’sonListItemClick(...)whereas if you were using a plainandroid.app.Activitythen you would need to implement this manually with anOnClickListenerand implementation.By all accounts, if your layout contains a list then use a ListActivity/ListFragment since it is a useful extension. It does not mean your whole screen layout has to be list but a portion of it has to host a ListView widget with identifier,
id="@android:id/list".The Javadoc on the class with useful examples of how to use it can be found here.