Since I've seen a presentation from Google IO I'm a bit confused in the question, if it's better to use content providers or databases. Or it makes no difference if I don't want to share any data with other applications.
If I've understood it right, content providers based on SQLite DBs and it's also possible that content of them is only accessable for my application.
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I am writing a content provider for this application and in my content provider I am opening a database connection, running a query and returning the cursor of results to the calling program. If I close this database connection in the provider, the cursor has no results. If I leave it open, I get "leak found" errors in my DDMS log. What am I missing here? What's the clean, proper way to return a cursor of database results?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to get a code of content provider which a database is created. I am using the tool which located here tools/sqllite3.exe to check if the database is created.Please let me know the step by step procedure for this thing.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi have done SQLite database programming for Android, but i dont know anything about Content-Provider except this: "As i have referred Android Developer page , Android SDK explained about "Content-provider" as it is used to store and retrieve data." What is the exact difference between "Content-Provider" and "SQLite Database"?Which is best to store data, when ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedNot sure of the absolute utility of this but seems as though it should be possible and useful. Can you extend ContentProvider to provide URIs representing new queries (i.e., joins across multiple tables not specified by existing URIs) for an existing system database? The alternative seems to be that I need to write a series of cursor queries then join them -- seems like a lot of unnecessary code duplication.
I have been trying this for the contacts database as an exercise, but no love so far. The crux seems to be that I cannot open a database in another package during the setup phase. Am I just completely out in left field here? It's possible as I am new to both Java and Android.
I understand, at least on paper, the basic difference between the Content Provider and just directly accessing the SQLiteDatabase. I have a functioning prototype for my application, and currently it is just directly hitting the database. I don't really have any experience using the Content Provider pattern, but I have found out that I will need to share some data with another application.
I will only be sharing about 2 out of a dozen or so tables, so I was wondering if I should be just completely redoing the data layer to follow the Content Provider pattern, or just expose only those tables via a Content Provider for the sake of the other application and still directly access the database in the primary application.
One of the issues I ran into with my prototype was that I have some fairly complex transactions, and the code I wrote to get that working is not designed particularly well and isn't reusable at all. As I add more functionality to this app, I'm going to need a better designed data access layer, before I set off writing my own, does anyone know of any good resources with design patterns for this type of thing already? Also, if I need to go the Content Provider route, am I going to have solid control over the database transactions?
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.
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.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'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?
View 6 Replies View Relatedmy 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)?
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan i pro-grammatically get a list of content providers extant on the system?
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View 2 Replies View Related1. 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.
Im having problems with the content provider. Im trying to create a content provider.Is my URI parse been parse correctly?this leads to my database as I want to extract data from it and show it in the list view.after which, i have to edit the manifest inserting the provider if I extend my class to ContentProvider, my database file will be kinda screwed up, is there an easier way?however, it shows the error of not having the one.two.databases to exist.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would like to know the exact difference between Content provider and SQLiteDatabase. If we have to share our data among applications then we use Content provider, otherwise SQLiteDatabase. Is this is the ONLY difference, OR using Content Provider has something to do with performence?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am performing hundreds of calls to a single content provider to perform various insertions, updates and deletions. After profiling my application, I have noticed that the ContentResolver class takes approx. 30ms to retrieve the corresponding content provider object for each call. Is there anyway to retrieve a reference to the content provider rather then going through the ContentResolver every time?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have written the following content provider, but when I try to pull information from it into an array,I presume its something to do with my naming of the CONTENT_URI or something? I'm not quite sure how it works so could anyone explain a bit and spot what I have done wrong?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to delete Downloads provider data. And I have added permission in AndroidManifest. xml,But it doesn't work, the log gave me a pid and an uid, I guess the problem is caused by these two ids.If it's true, what can I do to solve this problem.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm making a media player, but my code doesn't show all my playlists and for many others it does not show any.Why doesn't the code below work completely?
View 2 Replies View RelatedThe Content Provider starts when the first applicable URI is resolved. This will make the ContentProvider run forever and there doesn't seem to be a way to stop it (such as due to inactivity etc).It would be nice if Content Provider would stop after some time so that the memory usage is reduced (An enclosing process, doesn't need to be alive if the Content Provider is not needed anymore).
View 4 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know if there is documentation explaining the SMS content provider?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if anyone has any information on accessing the Gmail content provider. It doesn't seem to be officially supported in the API but it looks like people are able to do this regardless. See the SlideScreen app which notifies you of new e-mail and even shows you info (sender, title).It would be great to know how this is accomplished, for example we could create a home screen widget that shows you your last few e- mails, etc.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a doubt about content provider. Why we use content provider? can't we use database of a application? If we talk about other application also. can't we use database of that application directly wihout content provider?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI created SQLite base with 3 tables and custom ContentProvider. I had a crash on first call method query. I tried to get cursor from base via db.query(table, columns,...) it worked correctly.
The exception is android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: no such column: modified: , while compiling: SELECT items._id, items.name FROM items ORDER BY modified ASC
The method is below:
CODE:..............
The Log is 08-13 11:49:59.471: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5237): Caused by: android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: no such column: modified: , while compiling: SELECT items._id, items.name FROM items ORDER BY modified ASC
When I send an SMS on my Android emulator, it goes to the content provider:
content://sms/sent
right?
So I wanted to get the last sent SMS from the content provider. So I used this Uri as you can see above, and, I used the method query, with the Content Resolver Object. And I got the cursor, and used the movetofirst() method, so I would have the last sent SMS. Check the code below. I hope it helps.
package com.sys;
CODE:...................
I am developing an application that involves some sensitive user information. I retrieve this information via a private web API. I am trying to determine the best way to get this data into my app. Right now I'm exploring creating a content provider that can do so; my hesitation is in making it secure. I want this data to be usable only by my application. Ideally, no other apps would even know it exists.
Do you have any pointers or advice on how to do this effectively and securely? Any info on content providers who's data source is a remote OAuth'd API?
I say content provider, but if that isn't the best way to do what I need, by all means let me know what else to look into.
What are advantages of using custom content provider? Why such content provider is superior of plain class that wraps SQL queries?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIn my application, I have created a ContentProvider. Is there a way for me to instantiate this ContentProvider when my apk is started? RIght now, the ContentProvider only instantiates when someone does a query.
View 1 Replies View Relatedwhen writing a ContentProvider I have to implement the onCreate()-method, in which I establish my database connection. But to write the changes I made to the database I have to close the database on some point. Does something like a onDestroy()-method exist for ContentProviders or is there some intent I have to listen to, which is fired before killing my process?
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