SimpleCursorAdapter deprecated, what to do now?

I have been working through a tutorial on using Androids SQLite Database. The tutorial is found here: http://ift.tt/1zKlWPT

I am stuck on step three, everything in android studio shows that there are no errors. But I cant seem to query the database, it wont show results when I press the search button. Is it because of this SimpleCursorAdapter being deprecated? If so, how would I go about making this database work.

**MAIN ACTIVITY(EMPLOYEELIST.java)**
    import android.app.Activity;
    import android.database.Cursor;
    import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
    import android.os.Bundle;
    import android.view.View;
    import android.widget.EditText;
    import android.widget.ListAdapter;
    import android.widget.ListView;
    import android.widget.SimpleCursorAdapter;

    public class MainActivity extends Activity {

        protected EditText searchText;
        protected SQLiteDatabase db;
        protected Cursor cursor;
        protected ListAdapter adapter;
        protected ListView employeeList;

        /** Called when the activity is first created. */
        @Override
        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
            db = (new DatabaseHelper(this)).getWritableDatabase();
            searchText = (EditText) findViewById (R.id.searchText);
            employeeList = (ListView) findViewById (R.id.list);
        }

        public void search(View view) {
            // || is the concatenation operation in SQLite
            cursor = db.rawQuery("SELECT _id, firstName, lastName, title FROM employee WHERE firstName || ' ' || lastName LIKE ?",
                    new String[]{"%" + searchText.getText().toString() + "%"});
            adapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(
                    this,
                    R.layout.employee_list_item,
                    cursor,
                    new String[] {"firstName", "lastName", "title"},
                    new int[] {R.id.firstName, R.id.lastName, R.id.title});
            employeeList.setAdapter(adapter);
        }

    }