Kotlin and Android Development featuring Jetpack

Create a Custom ListAdapter

The PlayerSummaryAdapter class is responsible for managing all the PlayerSummary items in our list and handling how they’re displayed. We use a custom RecyclerView.ViewHolder inner class (meaning it lives inside PlayerSummaryAdapter) to bind a PlayerSummary item to the layout, then the RecyclerView library handles the rest. All we need to do in PlayerSummaryAdapter is tell the RecyclerView what to do when creating and binding a new ViewHolder plus how to tell the difference between PlayerSummary items in the list.

After creating PlayerSummaryAdapter in the adapters package, first up is the PlayerSummaryViewHolder inner class. The PlayerSummaryAdapter class both contains and depends on this class, so we’ll create it ...