What are the differences between extending Activity and extending ListActivity?

Question

I am using a class which extends Activity to obtain a list from an API...

In some apps which do basically the same, the devs extended ListActivity...

Which are t

Answer 1

Also, in a regular Activity you can use the code below in onCreate to hide the app titlebar. It seems that you can't do the same in a ListActivity. (learned this the hard way)

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_list);
// The rest of the content of onCreate