Ormlite, listViews and adapters?

Question

I have OrmLite working in my application with database helpers and so on. I looked through OrmLite 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 a suitable way or will there be problems with the road using my method?

From other sources that I read, you should use the CursorAdapter for listViews, not the BaseAdapter (which I am now expanding in ArtistsListCustomAdapter() ). It seems inconvenient for me to repeat the result a second time to create an array.

I found some tips regarding the use of adapters, but since I'm fairly new to Android in general, I would really appreciate additional tips to “connect the dots”. In my case, if getAllArtists() returns a Cursor ? Seems tricky for such an easy task:

Android cursor with ORMLite for use in CursorAdapter

Answer 1

Take a look at this:

https://github.com/campnic/ormlite-android-extras

They have an implementation of the ormlite cursor adapter.