Best practice to asynchronously delete a ListView/RecyclerView item

Best option in your case will be using RecyclerView. Because when you clicked delete you can call adapter.notifyItemRemoved(itemPos). So the list item will be removed with animation from your RecyclerView and you will not worry about the delete operation result.

See the Android Developer tutorial on Creating Lists and Cards:

Use the RecyclerView widget when you have data collections whose elements change at runtime based on user action or network events.

Here is an example:

public class MyAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<MyAdapter.ViewHolder> implements View.OnClickListener, View.OnLongClickListener {private ArrayList<String> mDataset;private static Context sContext;public MyAdapter(Context context, ArrayList<String> myDataset) {    mDataset = myDataset;    sContext = context;}@Overridepublic MyAdapter.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent,int viewType) {    View v = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.my_text_view, parent, false);    ViewHolder holder = new ViewHolder(v);    holder.mNameTextView.setOnClickListener(MyAdapter.this);    holder.mNameTextView.setTag(holder);    return holder;}@Overridepublic void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder holder, int position) {    holder.mNameTextView.setText(mDataset.get(position));}@Overridepublic int getItemCount() {    return mDataset.size();}@Overridepublic void onClick(View view) {    ViewHolder holder = (ViewHolder) view.getTag();    if (view.getId() == holder.mNameTextView.getId()) {        **//Important !!!**        notifyItemRemoved(getPosition());        // Make your database operation also here    }}public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {    public TextView mNumberRowTextView;    public TextView mNameTextView;    public ViewHolder(View v) {        super(v);        mNameTextView = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.nameTextView);    }}

    @Override    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {        final View itemView = convertView != null ? convertView : /* inflate view */;        itemView.findViewById(R.id.delete_button).setOnClickListener(                new View.OnClickListener() {                    @Override                    public void onClick(View view) {                        itemView.setEnabled(false);                        // OR view.setClickable(false);                    }                });        return itemView;    }

Or use RecyclerView with removal animation.

build.gradle

compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.2.1'

activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"    android:layout_width="match_parent"    android:layout_height="match_parent">    <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView        android:id="@+id/my_recycler_view"        android:layout_width="match_parent"        android:layout_height="match_parent"        app:layoutManager="android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager" /></RelativeLayout>

my_item.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    android:layout_width="match_parent"    android:layout_height="wrap_content"    android:orientation="horizontal">    <TextView        android:id="@+id/value_text"        android:layout_width="0dp"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:layout_weight="1"/>    <Button        android:id="@+id/delete_button"        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:text="Delete"/></LinearLayout>

MainActivity.java

import android.os.Bundle;import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;import android.view.LayoutInflater;import android.view.View;import android.view.ViewGroup;import android.widget.Button;import android.widget.TextView;import java.util.ArrayList;import java.util.Arrays;import java.util.List;public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {    private List<String> items = new ArrayList<>(            Arrays.asList("first", "second", "third"));    @Override    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);        RecyclerView myRecyclerView = (RecyclerView)                findViewById(R.id.my_recycler_view);        myRecyclerView.setAdapter(new MyAdapter());    }    private class MyAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<MyAdapter.MyViewHolder> {        @Override        public MyViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {            return new MyViewHolder(LayoutInflater.from(MainActivity.this)                    .inflate(R.layout.my_item, parent, false));        }        @Override        public void onBindViewHolder(MyViewHolder holder, int position) {            holder.bind(position);        }        @Override        public int getItemCount() {            return items.size();        }        public class MyViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {            private TextView valueTextView;            private Button deleteButton;            public MyViewHolder(View itemView) {                super(itemView);                valueTextView = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.value_text);                deleteButton = (Button) itemView.findViewById(R.id.delete_button);                deleteButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {                    @Override                    public void onClick(View v) {                        int position = (int) v.getTag();                        items.remove(position);                        notifyItemRemoved(position);                        notifyItemRangeChanged(position, items.size());                    }                });            }            public void bind(int position) {                valueTextView.setText(items.get(position));                deleteButton.setTag(position);            }        }    }}

if your database query is not returning lot of data then there is no issue to do database operations on UI thread.