what is listadapter in android

 what is listadapter in android

ListAdapter is a wrapper around the AyncListDiffer helper. It includes computing diffs between Lists on a background thread and handling updates at different adapter positions. All you need to do is make a call to the submitList(data: List<T>) function and it will compute the best way to update the items for you.

What is ListAdapter?

ListAdapter is just an extension of RecyclerView. Adapter . Its computes diffs between Lists on a background thread with AsyncListDiff . You can obviously create a RecyclerView. Adapter to work in same way 

example of list adapter:

class UserAdapter : ListAdapter<User, UserAdapter.UserViewHolder>(UserComparator) {

    override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): UserViewHolder {

        val view = LayoutInflater

                .from(parent.context)

                .inflate(R.layout.item_user, parent, false)

        return UserViewHolder(view)

    }

    override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: UserViewHolder, position: Int) {

        val user = getItem(position)

        holder.bind(user)

    }

    class UserViewHolder(itemView: View) : RecyclerView.ViewHolder(itemView) {

        private val tvName = itemView.tvName

        fun bind(user: User) {

            tvName.text = user.name

        }

    }

}