The University of Lahore, CS&IT Department

Mobile Application Development

Assignment-2

Start-Date 23-04-2021 Section-A Total Marks 10

Due-Date 27-04-2021 Program: BSCS
Name: Abdullah Bin Afzaal Sap Id: 70066868

Answer the following statements

1. How do you write the difference between Customer Adapter and
RecyclerView?
Customer Adapter:
You can also create custom adapter to display items as you want
Layout-Inflater:
There are two ways to create UI in android. One is a static way and
another is dynamic or programmatically. Suppose we have a simple
layout main.xml have one text view and one edit text.
We can display this layout in static way by
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
A dynamic way of creating a view means the view is not mentioned in
our main.xml but we want to show with this in run time.
RecyclerView:
Recycler View class is a modernized version of the List View and the
Grid View classes, that supports the display of a collection of data.
Recycler View makes it easy to efficiently display large sets of data. As
the name implies, Recycler View recycles those individual elements.
When an item scrolls off the screen.
For example,

if a user scrolled down to a position where items 4 and 5 are visible;

items 1,2
and 3 would be cleared from the memory to reduce memory
consumption.
✓ In Android 5.0 Lollipop, Android introduced RecyclerView widget.
✓ RecyclerView is flexible and efficient version of ListView.
✓ It is a container for rendering larger data set of views that can be
recycled and scrolled very efficiently.

2. How Customer Adapter function getView() implemented in

RecyclerView()?
Public View getView (int position, View convertView, ViewGrouparent)
Get a View that display the data at the specified position in the data
set. You can either create a View manually or inflate it from an XML
layout file. When the View is inflated, the parent View (GridView,
ListView ..) will apply default layout parameters unless you use
LayoutInflater.inflate(int, android.view.ViewGroup, boolean) to specify
a root view and to prevent attachment to the rool.

3. How inflater class inflate List items in Recycler View?

LayoutInflater creates View objects based on layouts defined in XML.
It takes a xml layout file as input and converts it to View objects, in
other words,
Layoutinflater is a class that reads the xml appearance description and
convert them into java based objects.
4. What is the purpose of recyclerAdapter.recyclerHolder
onCreateViewHolder, onBindViewHolder?
createViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType)
This method calls onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup, int) to create a
new RecyclerView.ViewHolder and initializes some private fields to be
used by RecyclerView.
bindViewHolder(VH holder, int position)
This method internally calls onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder, int) to
update the RecyclerView.ViewHolder contents with the item at the
given position and also sets up some private fields to be used by
RecyclerView.

5. What is the purpose of RecylerView.ViewHolder class?

A ViewHolder describes an item view and metadata about its place
within the RecyclerView.
RecyclerView.Adapter implementations should subclass ViewHolder
and add fields for caching potentially expensive View.findViewById(int)
results.
While RecyclerView.LayoutParams belong to the
RecyclerView.LayoutManager, ViewHolders belong to the adapter.
Adapters should feel free to use their own custom ViewHolder
implementations to store data that makes binding view contents easier.
Implementations should assume that individual item views will hold
strong references to ViewHolder objects and that RecyclerView
instances may hold strong references to extra off-screen item views for
caching purposes