Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook

Using a CursorAdapter

Sometimes our data comes from a source that returns an ICursor element; thus, we can make use of the SimpleCursorAdapter type without having to create a collection of data objects.

How to do it...

Using the SimpleCursorAdapter type with an ICursor instance is almost the same as using the SimpleAdapter type with an object collection:

1. When using a CursorAdapter type, all we need is an ICursor instance from either the ContentResolver or CursorLoader types:

   var uri = ContactsContract.Contacts.ContentUri; string[] projection = { ContactsContract.Contacts.InterfaceConsts.Id, ContactsContract.Contacts.InterfaceConsts.DisplayName, ContactsContract.Contacts.InterfaceConsts .ContactStatusLabel, }; ICursor cursor = ContentResolver.Query( ...