Intercepting Simplecursoradapter Action

I am writing an application which is using a SimpleCursorAdapter to display a list of items from my SQLite Database. The application is a list application, which allows the user to

Solution 1:

Is this possible without writing my own CursorAdapter?

You can attach a ViewBinder using setViewBinder(), and implement a ViewBinder to format your TextViews as you wish.

If not how can I go about writing my own CursorAdapter?

Step #1: Create a subclass of SimpleCursorAdapter

Step #2: Override setViewText() and apply your formatting at that point, or override bindView() and fill in all of the row widgets yourself