I'm creating a map application on Android in which users share info. among them. I've., one user's marking on the map should be available to other users. What might be the best design for such type of communication?(like where can i host my database, file exchange format etc)
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ive been looking for a week now i need some help connecting to a remote database...i want my app to get data out of the database and update the database.ive tried this http://www.helloandroid.com/tutorials/connecting-mysql-database but i dont understand it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a general Android design question around data access. I have a number of activities in my application that need to access a SQLite database. In order to wrap up all data access logic in one place I have created a DatbaseHandler class that takes care of all data access logic. This class takes care of building up where clauses, calling the database and interrogating the resulting cursor to retrieve the query results and return them to the caller. The purpose of this class is to wrap all data access code in one place so that it can be easily managed and maintained as opposed to having data access logic scattered across all activities. Each activity that needs access to the database creates an instance of this DatabaseHandler class and passes it a reference of android.content.Context. The DatabaseHandler class then uses this Context object to call an underlying content provider as follows context_i.getContentResolver().query(...).
My data access logic (cursor handling logic to be specific) is not in the activity and so I cannot manage the cursors life cycle, therefore there is likely to be memory leaks.
My questions are as follows -
How can I (if its even possible) manage the cursors life cycle from outside an Activity? Should each activity even be creating an instance of this data handler class and passing an instance of Context to it? Perhaps my design approach is wrong and I should expose these data access functions as static methods that take an instance of the calling activity as a parameter. That way I could perform managed queries and let the activity take care of managing the cursors life cycle?
I'm developing an Android application with a database. That database will have more than three tables. Now I'm working on a class called DBAdapter to access the SQLite Database. DBAdpater will have five methods for every table on database (insertEntry, removeEntry, getAllEntries, getEntry and updateEntry). So, if I have five table, DBApadter will have more than twenty-five methods. I think is so huge. How may DBAdapter classes should be?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am going to develop an Android Application but before developing it i needs to have MockUp for the Android Application,so is there any way to design MockUp/GUI Design tool for the Android Application?
I know about DroidDraw tool , but i think it is not the exact way to prepare Mockup for the android application.
I have already referred this SO Question , but overthere i just found all the tools for the I-Phone only. So please feel free to share with me if you have/found any !
i'm developing an android application, and i need to use a online database to insert and view some data.
What can i use? There are some online database host that support the REST service that i can use? or another way to do it?
I am looking for a free SAAS provider that I could use to accomplish the following. a. CRUD data using webservices or someother compatible mechanism. Any ideas would be great.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm building a client server android app that has to do with stores and I want (when the user is close to 2 or 3 stores with their database online) my app to understand that he can connect to one of these stores' databases and list them to the screen. (just what is happenning with the available wifis when we want to connect to the internet) How can I achieve that? I hope I made clear what I'm looking for.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedHere's the deal: I have an Android application that needs to call a web service every X seconds (currently 60 seconds). This application has multiple tabs and these tabs all need to interact with the data themselves. One is a MapView, one is a ListView and then the third is irrelevant but will need to also get some global data eventually. The issue is that I want my main activity to have a thread that runs in the background, gets the results and then instructs both child activities in the TabHost to update themselves with the latest data. Also, when the user clicks on the tabs and the onCreate/onResume activities fire, I would also like to force a redraw by getting the latest data from the main activity. I'm really at a loss here. I've tried this with a service and some ghetto static methods to pass an instance of the Activities to the Service to call specific functions to update their views whenever the timer fired, but the slowdowns were pretty bad and the code was just ugly ugly ugly.
So I implemented it as a timer-driven thread in the tabhost activity and then I have timer-driven threads in each child activity that then grab the data (in a synchronized fashion) and update their map/list. It's much faster but still feels slightly hack-ish, especially the part where I'm calling a custom function in the parent activity like so:
((MainActivity)getParent()).getNearbyMatches();
This adds an element of strong coupling that I'm not entirely thrilled with, but from a performance standpoint it's much better than it was. I appreciate the answers that have already been given and will do a bit of research on the content provider front but I'm not sure I want to go back to the service model.
I want to create an application that can be interactive with another Android device that could be across the room or across the country. For example, imagine playing Tic-Tac-Toe; but I'm the X's on my phone and the O's are my brother on his Android phone. I think it can be done via application specific messaging. Looking to see if it is possible, and, if so, how to send a message from one application to another on another device.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am new to Android development and am interested in working out a design of an application. I am however, unfamiliar with the best way to handle what I want to do. I am interested in obtaining information from my band's Joomla website and placing it into an Android application. At the moment I'd like to get News articles posted and potentially other information that I create on the site. I was thinking of doing this by setting up RSS feeds for the website. Would it be better to somehow access the data directly by connecting to the database? I don't know PHP so I can't develop a webservice to access the content. Any ideas?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have read the topic about supporting multiple screen size as well as different DPI. I am wondering which of the following way is better in supporting multiple screens:
1. Have different layout for different screen size (stretch the images)
2. Have different set of graphics for different screen (use the same layout)
3. Have different set of graphics and different set of layout for each of the screen
Which way is the easiest? And which way is the most optical way to design? Or is there another better way?
I am designing an app that will have some activities separated in tabs. Some of them will have to perform tasks in the background will the user is in another tab. What is the best strategy for designing an app like this? I was thinking about using a service but it can be killed by android dalvik, isnt it?
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View 25 Replies View RelatedI implemented sqlitedatabase using content provider in one application. And created some tables and some data in that. By using another application how to read those database. I am doing in second application as a sql query by using Content uri what i used in application one. But it is throwing exception that read permissin is required. How to give those permissions is it in application1 or 2.
View 21 Replies View RelatedI need to know how to create simple android application by sqlite database, how can i view the sqlite database and to view the tables has like other mysql server,Let me help to create simple application with database.where i can find the database.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI want manage our web application using an android application. we want to the database connection object. we are using mysql database. and i want to post the data to my server. so please help me for this solution.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have started creating database for my application. It is working well. The data is also getting stored.But the issue is that i require dropping table, that already exists, every time i run the application.
But one thing i found is that whenever i change the version of the database in my code, the table gets dropped. But i would like to know whether it is possible to drop table without changing the version number of the database.
android code to delete the database from the application?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm searching information about how i can access a specific database that to not belong to me, and that is store in /data/data/com.... directory is it possible without root access? it it possible with root access, and how?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am writing an app that will require a centralized database, along with a small app to digest incoming file data and populate this database.
android phone -> file -> some app somewhere -> some database somewhere
I know this is probably a fairly common situation. Is there a particular hosting service/solution for this? Many apps must do something like this (with high score tables and the like). The trick is, I can't use one of the high-score-specific hosting sites, because I need the app in front of the database to interpret the incoming files.
One of my applications downloads a database from a server. When I install the application onto my phone, it downloads the file correctly and loads the information, no exceptions thrown or anything. However, when I upload the apk into the Android Market Place and download it onto the phone, the application downloads the database and then crashes, saying that the sqlite handler was not able to open up the database.
Here's the progression of code:.............
I'm testing an application I'm working on and I wanted to delete the database my application creates so I could read all the data from my web server back in to a fresh one.
I launched adb, went to data/data/my.applicaton.package/databases and did a "rm mydatabase". This deleted the database (note: I've done this many many times before without a problem).
I launched my application again and, to my surprise, a new database wasn't created. Even more surprising is there was data in my application. My application is still pulling the data from some where! It gets a Cursor from my database and uses a CursorAdapter to populate the list. So, it is obviously reading from a database (seemingly a cached one?).
I'm trying to implement a database in my application. I'm following a tutorial about writing my own ContentProvider, but I'm confused about SQLiteOpenHelper::getType. We're supposed to write it and, essentially, write a switch that returns the MIME type corresponding to the type of data we're dealing with.
I don't fully understand it. I'm not sure, even though I have an example, what is precisely supposed to be conveyed here. How do I determine the MIME type of my different tables of data?
I got some problem with my database in my Android application. Perhaps, my application is working but let me explain you.
Here are just parts of the code from my app.. i don't want to paste the whole it's not needed.
CODE:....................
So when i try to run my app i get Force close, but when i put manually: dh.insert("test", "ooo");
In the onCreate method in my main activity everything is fine and working. So, the conclusion is that i must put some value for the first time i run the app so it can work properly. I thought maybe to update that row with the new informations that i insert later through some TextView's from the app.
I am having a own device which is running on android 2.1.I have installed one application in that .That application will create a new DB if there is no DB for the application.It is creating correctly .I have accessed the device memory as well.I have seen the database in the device memory.But when I reboot the device the Database got erased .The app is not persisting the database after rebooting the device.What will the problem?
View 3 Replies View Related im try to make apps about information of a city. On the picture has many menu (you can see menu "info 1", "info 2", "info 3"....). in the plan, i will make thats app with Android SQLite, so for each info menu can display an information from sqlite database (read data from SQLite database). The questions are :
how thats app posible to make ?
What the name type or app model (similiar to picture) and what must be learn, so i can know how to build that app ?
Can i use some design pattern like MVC or something in my android application I this I mean to say I have a controller which is called by activities and controller decides which activity to show something on this lines. Is this good design? Can i get a link for a design approach to follow in android?
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