Activities

• ListActivity
  • Mostly deprecated; use a ListFragment instead (see below)

Content providers

• Provides an interface for providing content that can be used by other applications or activities within the same application
• Clients access a content provider using ContentResolver
• Asynchronously queried using a CursorLoader

Fragments

• To use ListFragment with CursorLoader and ActionBarActivity:
  • Have the fragment itself (not the activity) implement LoaderManager.LoaderCallbacks and override the requisite methods
  • Set the list adapter in onCreateView in the fragment class
  • For more information, see:
    • ListFragment
    • CursorLoader
    • List View
      • SimpleCursorAdapter
    • ListActivity
      • SimpleCursorAdapter