Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook

Less boilerplate Cursor data parsing

In this recipe, we are going to learn how to work with the Android Cursor type in a more effective and easy way.  We are going to create an extension function for the Cursor type, allowing us to query it in a clean way. We will also implement a practical example showing how to access the system-content resolver in order to fetch contacts stored on the device and transform Cursor into a list of strings representing the contacts' names.