SQLite Provider: Database access made easy

1. SQLite Provider: A simplification of database access David Gonzalez
2. Content Providers Managers of structured data Abstract underlying data storage Allow external access to data
3. Manage connection to data source
4. Easy access to data
5. Implicit intents
6. Loader callbacks
7. Provide data to external apps
8. PROBLEMS — And we had to fix them
9. Boilerplate code
10. DB versioning
11. JSON to SQL mapping
12. Create the database public ExampleDatabase(Context context, CursorFactory factory, int version) { super(context, DATABASE_NAME, factory, version); } @Override public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) { createDatabase(db); }
13. protected void createDatabase(SQLiteDatabase db) { final String articleTable = "CREATE TABLE articles" // + " ('" // + _id + "' INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL, '" // + title + "' TEXT, '" // + content + "' TEXT, '" // + timestamp + "' TIMESTAMP NOT NULL );"; db.execSQL(articleTable); @Override public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) { createDatabase(db); }
14. Upgrade it @Override public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) { if (oldVersion == 0) { db.execSQL("DROP TABLE article"); createDatabase(db); } }
15. Upgrade it ContentResolver resolver = getContentResolver(); String[] projection = new String[] {UserDictionary.Words._ID, UserDictionary.Words.WORD}; String selectionClause = UserDictionary.Words.WORD + " = ?"; String[] selectionArgs = new String[] {"Android"}; String sortOrder = UserDictionary.Words.WORD + " ASC”; Cursor cursor = resolver.query(UserDictionary.Words.CONTENT_URI, projection, selectionClause, selectionArgs, sortOrder);
16. Our solution https://github.com/novoda/SQLiteProvider