Rapid Android Development

Wrapping Up

This concludes our examination of databases and tables, a highly relevant subject when developing mobile applications. You’ll be able to read and write data to the Android into private and public directories and work with comma- and tab-separated values. This will allow you to save settings and application states so you can get your users started where you left off.

For more complex projects, where our interactions with the data become more complicated and our questions more detailed, we might need to work with a database. That will let us search, sort, and query the data we are working with. The most commonly used local database management system on mobile devices is SQLite, which we’ll learn about in the next chapter.

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