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Android Android Fragments Ingredients and Directions The State of the CheckBoxes

Posted by John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

Curious: why not use a recyclerview

I was curious as to why when creating a list of checkboxes for our ingredients list we didn't use a listview or better yet a recyclerview.

1 Answer

Ben Deitch
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Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Deitch
Ben Deitch
Treehouse Teacher

So we don't have to create an adapter :)

The main advantage of using a RecyclerView is that we can scroll through a 100 rows and we'll only be using as many Views as fits on the screen (instead of 100). But since recipes rarely have more than ~10 ingredients and pretty much everything fits on the screen, there's not much advantage to using a RecyclerView.

John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

Alright I was just curious so I can better understand methodologies and make better decisions in future work.