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Android Android Lists and Adapters (2015) Standard ListViews Introducing ListView and ListActivity

Mustafa Ogün Öztürk
Mustafa Ogün Öztürk
3,468 Points
Posted by Mustafa Ogün Öztürk
Mustafa Ogün Öztürk
3,468 Points

Replacing AppCompatActivity with ListActivity

Hi all

When i replace AppCompatActivity with ListActivity, how can my app be backwards compatible ? Do i have any backwards compatibility issues ?

Thanks

varun dixit
varun dixit
768 Points

Ben Jakuben SIr, can you please answer this question, Replacing AppCompactActivity with ListActivity for what? My app behaves same in both cases, with AppCompactActivity and with ListActivity

1 Answer

Ben Jakuben
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Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

You'll actually want to use RecyclerViews instead of ListViews. We show ListViews in this course because, at the time it was published, ListViews were still available and still widely used, even though people were switching to RecyclerViews. Now you will want to just use RecyclerViews. In the next version of this course we will omit the material on ListViews.

That means at this video, you can switch to ListActivity and don't worry about backwards compatibility. That will be addressed when you switch things over to RecyclerViews later in the course.