5. Working with Databases in Android
The previous chapter introduced the SQLiteOpenHelper and SQLiteDatabase classes and discussed how to create databases. Of course, this is only the first step as a database is not very useful until it contains data and allows software to run queries against that data. This chapter explains how that is done in Android by discussing which Android SDK classes can be used to manipulate a database as well as query a database.
Manipulating Data in Android
The Android SDK contains many classes to support database operations. Along with the classes to support create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations, the SDK contains classes to help generate the queries that read the database. Following are the classes introduced ...
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