Display data from SQLite database in android

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I am a newbie in android so my apologies if this seems to be a silly question. I want to display data returned from the SQLite database. All of this data is text and I am confused should I use GridView or ListView to display this data. Columns would be around 5 so, until now I feel that I need to use GridView. I shall be very thankful if someone can tell me which one to use with a simple example.
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Posted 21-Nov-13 1:04am

Ahsan Mirza

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walterhevedeich · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-21T15:27:00

It will of course depend on the length of the values. Personally, I would choose ListView for data that has a quite long text. Show only the important identifier (Name or ID for example)on your ListView and then show the details (values of the other columns) when the user has pressed the list item. As for examples, there are many tutorials out there. Some of them are below.

ListView
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/listview.html[^]
http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidListView/article.html[^]
http://www.learn2crack.com/2013/10/android-custom-listview-images-text-example.html[^]

GridView
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/layout/gridview.html[^]
http://www.androidhive.info/2012/02/android-gridview-layout-tutorial/[^]