RecyclerViews the new way and improved way to do ListViews. This tutorial assumes that you know how to use ListViews, that you're comfortable with layouts, and can create an "empty" project
Go ahead and create a new Android Studio project. Set your activity type that's generated to be an Empty Activity.
Once that's done open up build.gradle (Module: app)
and enter in the following inside of the dependencies
section
compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.0.1'
If you did that correctly your gradle file should like the one below and should sync up correctly
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
android {
compileSdkVersion 23
buildToolsVersion "23.0.1"
defaultConfig {
applicationId "ssa766.myapplication"
minSdkVersion 16
targetSdkVersion 23
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
}
buildTypes {
release {
minifyEnabled false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
}
}
}
dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.0.1'
compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.0.1'
}