Android :: Switching Content Providers For Same Content URI
Aug 12, 2009
This may seem like a stupid question but I need to be sure. I was wondering if it was possible to pro-grammatically change the Content Provider used when making a query given a Content URI. The reason being I need to know if it's possible to force the Calendar/Contacts applications to read from a different database via a different Content Provider temporarily while my application is running, so that I can reuse those applications to display my own data. Since the Content URI s are hard coded in each of these applications the only way it might be possible is if we could somehow temporarily change the Content Provider used for a given URI. I know this probably isn't possible, I just need to show it isn't. Could someone confirm this can't be done?
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Aug 26, 2010
Everything is working fine, I can access the provider. The problem is that I want to create a demo version of my app and I want it to share the same content provider so when the user install the full version, the data is kept in sync. Also, it should be possible to install only the full or the demo version. Therefore, I have to include my content provider in both.Now, when I try to install both apps error message, obviously because both AndroidManifest declare the same content provider.Is there a way to tell in the Manifest that this content provider should be used only if it doesn't already exists ? Or another workaround ?A solution would be that the full version migrate the data from a demo content provider to the full version content provider, but I would rather avoid that.
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Sep 21, 2010
I have a doubt regarding content provider.My doubt is I create a app1 that creates Content Provider and in second application(app2) i am using app1's content provider methods(like insert, update etc). It's working fine but i want to set some permissions in app1, so that if any other app wants to use that provider it must have to get this permissions(<uses- permissions) then only it should be able to use providers.
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Oct 8, 2009
I've been struggling with what seems like a straight forward issue for some time now, and any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Mar 1, 2010
I am having trouble understanding content providers in Android. Do you use intents to call content providers as well as managed queries?
Also, an activity has an intent filter. The intent filter has a element which has a mimeType attribute. How does Android know which content provider this mimetype is referring to?
The tag in the manifest just lists an authority but not the full content_uri. Further, the content_uri is typically defined in an encapsulated class that seems to only consist of constants but no methods, so I don't see how that links over to the content provider class.
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Jan 4, 2010
Is there a way to programmatically list all available content providers on a device? No real use case, I just thought it might be neat to see what apps I have installed on my phone that have exposed content providers.
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Feb 18, 2009
I have a plethora of data which is currently stored in 1000 different very small text files, I want to store this data in an SQ Lite database as I feel that this will be more space efficient and hopefully time efficient as I presume a database query is faster than opening and parsing a text file (please stop me now if this isn't the case!). The data does not need to be available to other applications and will be used internally only. My first question is whether or not to create a content provider anyway, is there any benefit to this? My second question is where to initialize the database, is it possible to ship an application with a database included already populated? Do I have to populate it in the on Create method of the SQ Lite Open Helper subclass? If I have to include the 1000 text files and read, parse and insert the data at inst all time I have a feeling this would be slow. Is it possible for me to populate the database now, dump it to a single file and then bulk insert from the file in the on Create method?
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Jul 27, 2009
Where can i get a complete list of content providers that Android offers out of the box? I'm looking for a content provider that list received SMS.
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Sep 2, 2010
Just found out that I don't need content providers if I don't need to share data with other applications. But since the examples I've seen all use content providers, I'm not sure how to proceed without them and populate activities with data derived from accessing my application's database directly.
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Aug 1, 2009
I am trying to test my DB using Provider Test Case2<T>. I can see the test DB being created. As such I suppose, the tested content provider should use the test DB. But as soon as I try any calls against the Mock Content Resolver (or the one created with new Resolver With Content Provider From Sql), I get an Unsupported Operation Exception. This is documented for the Mock Content Resolver as normal behavior. As such I am a bit unsure on the purpose of the Provider Test Case2. How do you test your content providers?
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Apr 3, 2010
I am in desperate need of good tutorials on Content Providers in Android. I have been searching in the web for the tutorials but none could give me a clear idea on how content providers work. I'll be grateful if anyone can provide me with sample codes of the projects that implement content providers...
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May 4, 2010
I'm attempting to make a custom Content Provider so that more than one application (activity?) has access to it. I have several questions about how to do this, How do I declare in the code that it is a Content Provider? How do other applications (activities?) use or import the Content Provider?
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Mar 1, 2010
I am having a hard time understanding content providers. In the notepad example and others, the content provider never even declares its CONTENT_URI anywhere inside itself, yet the docs say to publicly declare this. It's declared in a different class. So when an activity queries a content provider with a CONTENT_URI, how does Android know which one I want. I see no link between a content provider and its CONTENT_URI declared in another class.
I also don't how to think about intents and content providers. I know that you don't call an intent on a content provider. But an activity queries a content provider without an intent, and an activity has a mimetype attribute in the manifest that would seem to tie it to a content provider.
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Mar 11, 2010
how can i create a custom content provider like contact content provider? i know how to create custom content providers but i want to integarte to device such a way that it canbe accessed by all application installed in that device.
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Oct 21, 2009
I'm considering switching from T-mobile to verizon for this phone. I was this close to getting the motocliq but this device seems to be much better as long as the keyboard is functional since I'm not even a social networker. How many of you are considering switching carriers for this phone and do you think its worth it?
Is it true there's a 30 day buyer's remorse period on verizon so if I just get it and don't like it for whatever reason, I'm safe to remain with t-mobile and not be committed?
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Jun 20, 2012
i have a listview (i use a custom adapter) with 10 rows and each row has edittext how will i update the content of edittext on the third row after i edit the content of edittext in the first row.
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Jun 22, 2009
i hook up my G1 to my laptop and open a 'adb shell'. But as I execute the command 'cd /data/data', I get an error 'opendir failed, Permission denied' adb devices List of devices attached HT853GZ21556 device .I tried to cd the the right directory and then do 'sqlite3 <mydatabase>.db'.How can i dump the content of the database on a real device?
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Dec 29, 2009
I'd like to be able to read the system's SMS content provider. Basically I wanted to make an SMS messaging app, but it would only be useful if I could see past threads etc.It seems like there's a content provider for this, but I can't find documentation for it - anyone know where that is?
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Jun 4, 2010
my android application is handling a large database of bus passage time and we would like to allow others application to be able to display certains bus passage time. We would like to use a content provider to do that. Most example seems to be about using an SQL database, but we use some custom text file. I was wondering what would be the best way to do that. I was thinking I could use a Content Provider and implement the Cursor interface on a custom object that I would manually fill with my text data. Would this be possible ? Anyone have a better idea (excluding changing to SQL lite of course)?
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Sep 29, 2010
A web page:
- 5 first seconds. It shows an advertisement picture.
- After, its show main page.
If I get content by common way. It only gets page content with advertisement. How to load main page content?
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Sep 30, 2009
I'm developing a library and i need to know how to parse the AndroidManifest.xml file in order to get the Application Version Number from it dinamically.
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Dec 29, 2009
I didn't manage to query a web service from android emulator (previously I had a UnresolvedHostException but this is ok). Now that I can go any further, I do not have anything returned in the HttpResponse's Entity (length is -1).
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Nov 5, 2010
I'm relatively new in Android's world and the UI/Thread model is still confusing.
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Jul 24, 2010
I'm adding TableRow objects to my view dynamically based upon how many items are in a collection I've loaded. Everything loads fine and works nearly as expected. The one issue I'm having is that the text does not wrap if it's too long for the screen, but instead goes off the side...........
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May 26, 2009
Can i pro-grammatically get a list of content providers extant on the system?
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Sep 2, 2009
What content providers in the cupcake android build do apps have access to?
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Nov 24, 2010
I want to change setting in native application (i.e. SMS) by pointing it to different content location.
Ex - At given fraction of time, native application is pointing to list of SMS (com.android.providers.telephony.databases.mmssms.db).
I want to point to different location, that might be com.android.providers.telephony.databases.mmssms1.db
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Nov 2, 2010
I am creating an Android Widget containg some contact info. I discovered that the getContentResolver()-method only exists in the Activity-class, and not in the AppWidgetProvider-class. How do I query content from a widget? Like so:
Cursor people = getContentResolver().query(SOME QUERY);
UPDATE:..............
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Sep 23, 2010
The closest example of what i want to accomplish is the "Engadget" widget. It updates it's data from the internet every 5-10 minutes and "scrolls" to the stories every 5-7 seconds. I imagine it sets the 5 -10 minutes interval to the widget's provider to call the onUpdate without the inbuild limitations , something like that. AlarmManager alarms = (AlarmManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE); alarms.setRepeating(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME, SystemClock.elapsedRealtime(), updateRateSeconds * 1000, newPending);
Then the real issue.. to update the widgets content without calling onUpdate....................
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Jan 21, 2009
1. How do i use the content provider defined to interact with an application. I mean the database defined is for use in the program only, then how can i use this content provider from another program.
2. Is there an example depicting using of content providers. How are the content providers accessed else where so tht he databases defined in it be created at run time.
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